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" Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table. "

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" Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character. "

" If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground. "

" I don't have that many family and friends. "

" I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. "

" With a revival, you're compared to somebody else. "

" It's really important that I have a personal life. "

" I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away. "

" I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards. "

" I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it. "

" I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "

" The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed. "

" The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. "

" When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids. "

" To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. "

" I grew up on a farm. "

" Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow. "

" I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two. "

" When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth. "

" It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy. "

" Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. "

" It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them. "

" I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in. "

" My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming. "

" I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually. "

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

" I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early. "

" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "