Alan Menken Quotes
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
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I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.
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I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
