Margo Jefferson Quotes
My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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I'm not going out to parties every night.
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My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
