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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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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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.
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I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
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To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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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.
