Margo Jefferson Quotes
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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I'm very religious.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.
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Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
