Margo Jefferson Quotes
You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.
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You don't create a magazine for your readers. You don't take a poll, you know, like the politicians do, and find out what they're thinking and what they want... You're supposed to be telling people what the hell you think is exciting and dynamic and thought-provoking, and do it - and do it your way.
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In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
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The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.
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You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.
