Margo Jefferson Quotes
Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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I think I'm someone you would really break down easily, so I have to work on that.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.
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I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.
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Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.
