Alan Menken Quotes
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Alan Menken
Quotes to Explore
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
Aby Rosen
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
J. Michael Straczynski
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
J. Reuben Clark
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Nancy Pickard
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
Harold Ramis
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or 'Moses' talking points' - but hasten to add that they're not exactly 'carved in stone.'
Ann Coulter
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You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.
E. Lockhart
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
Queen Latifah
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We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.
Bernie Siegel
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I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.
Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Alan Menken
