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" It's really important that I have a personal life. "
Kelli O'Hara
Personal Life
Important
Life
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! "
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" 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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" 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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" My degree was in opera. "
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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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" I'm proud to be Irish. "
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" You breathe fast when you're scared. "
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" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "
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" We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway. "
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" I don't have that many family and friends. "
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Family
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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