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.
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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.
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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.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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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.
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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.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.
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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
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Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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I couldn't be more proud of our guys. A lot of teams drop down to .500 when they lose that many players. We didn't know what we were going to do early in the year, but these guys just battled, stayed tough and learned to win even when they don't play their best.
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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.
