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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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
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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.
