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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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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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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There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.
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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired 'A Time to Remember' to mobilize a movement for gun control.
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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.
