Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

Jill Scott

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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Joan Severance

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Michael Fassbender is phenomenal in '12 Years a Slave.'

Stana Katic

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I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.

Rob Lowe

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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

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RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.

Mike Marsh

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Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Loretta Lynn

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I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

Julia Holter

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You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Diego Della Valle

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So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.

Christy Romano

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I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

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