Amount Quote by Melvin Van Peebles Download Open image “Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.” — Melvin Van Peebles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amount Energy Making Time Took
“energy—the so-called sugar rush of a sweetened soft drink or a candy bar—its burst of power is inevitably followed by a letdown, making it… — John Douillard Copy Share Image
'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a sweet tooth problem. On tour, in catering, the dessert was always so good. When we started the tour I was in… — Kevin McHale Copy Share Image
My sweet tooth was so bad, it was rotten. So I had to have it pulled. For me, with sugar, it's all or nothing.… — Arden Myrin Copy Share Image
What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile. — Richard Rodgers Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it.… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
