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" I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan. "

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" Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon. "

" I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there. "

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