Alan Menken Quotes
Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.
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If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.
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As if the world and they were hand and glove.
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Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.
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Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.
