"In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative."

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Source : "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

Lea Salonga

#Song Quotes #Book Quotes #Missing Quotes

“If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”
“I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.”
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”
“You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.”
“I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.”
“I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.”
“Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.”

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