Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

John Morgridge

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All babies are beautiful.

Jeanne Calment

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You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Tom Wolfe

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The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

Johnny Weir

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I would love to be a pop star!

JoJo Siwa

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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

David Shields

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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

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I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

Sydney Pollack

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I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Sean Astin

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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

Mark McGwire

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