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The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way that's hurtful.Collection: Alan
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. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.Collection: Alan
What I look for in a partner is a skill, a voice of their own so I have a strength to go up against. They definitely have to be able to get out of their own way. I can't take somebody being precious about their work.Collection: Alan
I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.Collection: Alan
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.Collection: Alan
Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.Collection: Alan
Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.Collection: Alan
I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.Collection: Alan
When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.Collection: Alan
I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.Collection: Alan
I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.Collection: Alan
My favorite experience, in general, probably was the 'Little Shop' experience, which probably was terrifying, frustrating, and exhilarating and amazing, but because it was the first, that was the one where I watched the show just launch itself for the first time and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to have a career.'Collection: Alan
Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.Collection: Alan
Movies, you can insulate yourself more from audience, to a degree, and just look at box office. In theater, the audience is a very dynamic part of your process, and you feel much more exposed.Collection: Alan
I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.Collection: Alan
I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like that again. We'll just have to see.Collection: Alan
I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.Collection: Alan
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.Collection: Alan
Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.Collection: Alan
There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.Collection: Alan
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.Collection: Alan
No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.Collection: Alan
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?Collection: Alan
People dig exploration.Collection: Alan
Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.Collection: Alan
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.Collection: Alan
To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.Collection: Alan
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.Collection: Alan
It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.Collection: Alan
When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it would take at least 10-15 years to see results of my efforts.Collection: Alan
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.Collection: Alan
In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.Collection: Alan
New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.Collection: Alan
It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.Collection: Alan
As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.Collection: Alan
America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.Collection: Alan
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.Collection: Alan
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.Collection: Alan
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.Collection: Alan
It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.Collection: Alan
The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.Collection: Alan
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.Collection: Alan
I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.Collection: Alan
We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.Collection: Alan
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.Collection: Alan
CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.Collection: Alan
I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.Collection: Alan
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.Collection: Alan
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.Collection: Alan
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.Collection: Alan