Margo Jefferson Quotes
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.
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If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!
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I do like playing strong safety.
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I don't have any regrets.
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I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary.
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Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
