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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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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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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I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.
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It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movie in between 'Empire' and 'Return of the Jedi,' where Luke is training. It's so much cooler to cut from end of 'Empire' to beginning of 'Return,' where he's become the Jedi.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
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Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
