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Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 21, 1932

Topics

Good Bad Pretty Loner Much

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Family Musicians Artist Blood Some

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

Good Investment Want Return Gamblers

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Childhood Balance Green Think Feel

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

Nobody Now Him Going Only Did

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anna C. Brackett

Go Possessions Only Multiply Cares

My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.

Job Walking Find High Heels Sitting

Though I was the last child in the family, I was the first to enter the film industry.

Family Child First Industry Film

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.

Time Myself Woman Colors Feel Try

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Life You Complaining Something Your

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Loneliness Yourself Lonely You Write

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Life Love Daily Experience Finding

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

Walk Yourself Door Be Yourself Start

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