Alan Menken Quotes

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today it is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

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• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Crazy
  • Find
  • Ageing

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Community
  • Action

• If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Chef

• Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

  

  Paige Davis
  • Year
  • Just
  • Three

• You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Frame

• It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Remember

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Race
  • San Francisco

• My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

  

  Donald Byrd
  • Work
  • American
  • Relationship

• I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Marriage

• The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Stop

• It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today it is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Work
  • Tradition
  • Dramatic