Margo Jefferson Quotes
New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I don't like to look typical.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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The civil service are risk averse.
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.
