Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.
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I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.
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I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
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As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
