Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Melvin Van Peebles

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

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• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

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• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

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• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

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• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

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• An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
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• Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
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• Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  

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• Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

  

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• This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.

  

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• You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

  

  Eric Davis
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• I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

  

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• Normalcy is not interesting.

  

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• I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

  

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• I feel very appreciative of my mum, my girl, my family, my friends.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
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• I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

  

  Jason Silva
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• When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

  

  Luther Vandross Chic
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• I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Different
  • Company
  • Boys