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 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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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.
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Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
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For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
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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.
