Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeTogetherCheatingYoungLittle

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

FutureScienceHatePastBiology

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Anat Cohen

MeMoreClarinetThanChose

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Trevor Rabin

YouDarkGoKnowMoviesOver

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

Michael Moore

BrokenThinkAmericanGoKnow

I am not the sort of person who divests myself of everything that came before I came to Australia. I want to take all the knowledge and experiences I gained when I was in England and put it at the service of Australia because I have to bring something to Australia - not just money but myself.

Miriam Margolyes

KnowledgeMyselfServiceMoneyI Am

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Lisa See

DownSalesUpElectronicsBooks

My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the reality is that I enjoy spending each second with him. He is not just my husband - he is my rock and my very best friend!

Joyce Giraud

FriendBestTogetherFunPeopleMe

I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

MeLittleScaredBeingBeing Scared

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

Arca

SufferingMeSadnessPowerfulLook

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

Sebastian Horsley

SufferingFeelArtistGoMoreOrder

No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

Lysander Spooner

DecisionConsequencesResultsTry

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

LeRoy Neiman

LovePeopleRespondWhoMostThem

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