Mario Van Peebles Quotes
If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
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It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
