Margo Jefferson Quotes

My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

Margo Jefferson

• Trying
• Why
• Book
• Friends
• Happy
• Mother
• Fly

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Question
  • Questions

• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Great
  • Culture

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Never
  • Win

• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.

  

  Said Musa
  • People
  • Community
  • Support

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Doubt
  • Prison

• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Work
  • Party
  • Band

• In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Marriage

• I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Want
  • Ghetto

• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • World
  • Success
  • Sports

• My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Book