Margo Jefferson Quotes

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

Margo Jefferson

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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.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Long
  • Art

• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Today
  • Want
  • Tomorrow

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Anything

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• I really like clever men who challenge you.

  

  E. L. James
  • Men
  • Challenge
  • Clever

• My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Dad

• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • True
  • Feel

• I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Mountain

• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Start
  • Young
  • Latin

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Education
  • Common Sense

• It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Celebrity
  • Go
  • Zero

• 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.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • New

• 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.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Fun
  • Nice
  • Have

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• A few old men began to say there had been a winter like this when they were warriors, and that it was a year of catastrophe and disappointment. But old men will ever spin this wheel. The summers were always hotter and the winters colder in the days of their strength, and the air thick with epic drama and portent.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Air
  • Drama

• I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson

• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Women
  • Always
  • Inspired

• Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

  

  John Wesley Powell
  • Quality

• So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Done

• Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.

  

  Damian Barr
  • Writing
  • Memories
  • Greater

• Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

  

  Margo Jefferson