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The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken And all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken And, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken I don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken It’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken Collaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken What you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken It’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
Alan MenkenAlan Menken
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Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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Kevin HartKevin Hart The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions…
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Akhil SharmaAkhil Sharma They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.
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