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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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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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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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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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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I became a beach bum.
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I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
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Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
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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.
