Alan Menken
Alan Menken

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson

There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson

Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.

Alexei Mordashov
Alexei Mordashov

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

Alison Pill
Alison Pill

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.

Allan Savory
Allan Savory

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Allison Janney
Allison Janney

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.