Margo Jefferson Quotes
I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.
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I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
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I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
