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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. "
Idina Menzel
Learning
Time
Now
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" I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them. "
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" It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame. "
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" I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique. "
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" I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%. "
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Like
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" I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience. "
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Onstage
Being
" I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. "
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Tend
Playing
" I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer. "
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Think
" I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with. "
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Focus
Trying
Material
" As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills. "
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Done
Older
" After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home. "
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Me
" For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. "
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Power
Myself
" I would love to work with Matt Damon. "
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Love
Matt
Matt Damon
" My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. "
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Mother
Teacher
Great
" I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets. "
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Open
Love
Kids
" I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important. "
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Happy
Think
Sexy
" I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. "
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Play
I Am
Theatre
" It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence. "
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Summer
Dream
My Own
" The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. "
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Front
Musicians
Intensity
" I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food. "
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Home
Go
Food
" Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics. "
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High
Who Am I
Singer
" I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin! "
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Always
Husband
Stuff
" The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. "
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Theatre
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" I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows. "
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Funny
Girl
" Nerves are good. They keep you alive. "
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Keep
Good
" We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. "
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Fear
You
Fierce
" When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York. "
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New
Warm
New York
" I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life. "
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High
High School
Life
" Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school. "
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School
Growing Up
Growing
" For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people. "
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Key
People
Believe