Alan Menken Quotes
Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.
Alan Menken
Quotes to Explore
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
Rafael dos Anjos
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
Zach Anner
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
James McCloughan
If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
Bobby Moore
I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.
Brad Garrett
[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
Barack Obama
Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.
Barack Obama
Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.
Alan Menken
