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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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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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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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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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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I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
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I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
