Mario Van Peebles Quotes

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

Mario Van Peebles

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The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

Jerry Hall

LoveGreatMenPeopleBakingYou

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

Jennifer McMahon

LoveHopeBestStoryFeelI Can

How can you not have people in leadership roles in our country not supporting the rule of law? That's what separates us from the rest of the countries around the world.

Matt Rosendale

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I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.

Amanda Crew

MoreWatchingAlwaysUpLittleBeat

I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

Sibel Kekilli

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I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

Mike Wallace

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I don't practice very much anymore.

Joshua Ostrander

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The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.

Jason Isbell

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I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Donald Sutherland

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There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.

Ciara

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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Wole Soyinka

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When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

Pierce Brosnan

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