Alan Menken Quotes

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Alan Menken

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Will
  • Chaos
  • Winner

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Guy
  • Hands

• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Crazy
  • Ignorant
  • Newspaper

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Looking

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Way
  • Child
  • Breath

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Body
  • Unique
  • Popular

• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

  

  Michael Jeter
  • Time
  • Obvious
  • Figure

• Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Think

• I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Bad
  • Certain
  • Empathy

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

  

  Steven Lopez
  • Long
  • Feel
  • Doing

• Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Songs
  • Rhythm
  • Melody