Alan Menken Quotes
Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.Alan Menken
Quotes to Explore
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
Tamara Ecclestone -
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Camille Pissarro -
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus -
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
Usher -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
Raha Moharrak -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
Zadie Smith -
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh -
There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
Viktor Orban -
I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
Aaron Lazar
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
Taylor Negron -
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville -
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar -
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster -
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
Hamza Yusuf
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I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.
Samuel Morse -
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
Zane Grey -
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
Gautama Buddha -
Bloated, one Kirchner himself staggers off to work, where all work is in vain and the onslaught of mediocrity flattens everything. Like the cocottes that I painted, that is how one is now. Wiped out, next time gone.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
Haley Joel Osment -
Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.
Alan Menken