Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

John M. Ford

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Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Michael Bloomberg

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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Mercedes Lackey

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Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

Steve Easterbrook

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If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

Simon Toyne

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When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

Tori Kelly

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I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

Lucy Punch

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I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

Chuck Fleischmann

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Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Ashwin Sanghi

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I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, about who we should be like.

Priyanka Chopra

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I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Peter Welch

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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Paul Wolfowitz

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