Alan Menken Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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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.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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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.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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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.
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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.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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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.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
