Alan Menken Quotes

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Want

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Learn

• I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Comedy

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Help
  • Always
  • Author

• The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Win

• I worked on a farm for a little bit.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Little
  • Farm
  • Little Bit

• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Work
  • Words
  • Characters

• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Proud
  • Drink
  • Empty

• Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Create
  • Own
  • Roles

• While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Direction

• What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Free
  • College
  • Justice

• I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Proud
  • Projects
  • Composer