Idina Menzel Quotes
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
