Margo Jefferson Quotes
Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Most men are fragile.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.
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I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.
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I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.
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Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.
