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" Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them. "
Kelli O'Hara
Them
Different
Everyone
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" In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk. "
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" 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. "
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" By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm proud to be Irish. "
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Irish
" Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table. "
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Favorite
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" I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them. "
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" 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. "
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Born
Farm
" 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. "
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Think
Time
" 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. "
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Me
Family
" The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. "
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Music
Always
" My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. "
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Irish
Named
Me
" I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge. "
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Challenge
Been
Always
" When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most. "
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Magic
" I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work. "
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Grateful
Work
My Life
" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "
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Want
Being Famous
Being
" I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. "
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Doing
Continue
Playing
" Every part has its relief when I'm done with it. "
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Relief
Done
Every
" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "
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Been
Since
Nine
" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "
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Play
Wanted
Shakespeare
" My degree was in opera. "
Kelli O'Hara
Degree
Opera
" When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things. "
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Family
People
Living
" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "
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Act
Sing
Because
" It's really important that I have a personal life. "
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Personal Life
Important
Life
" I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! "
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Chance
Always
Things
" Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. "
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People
Middle
Ideas
" 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. "
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Time
Loved
" I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. "
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" 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. "
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Generation
Father