Alan Menken Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
-
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
-
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
-
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
-
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
-
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.
-
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.
-
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-
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.
-
All love is unrequited. All of it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
-
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.
-
I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
-
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
-
Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
-
There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.
-
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
-
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
