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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As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!
Vanessa Kirby
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
Parker Harris
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
Ornette Coleman
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What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
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When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
David Slade
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Alan Menken
