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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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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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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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.
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We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the effects and consequences of racism.
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I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.
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President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.
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What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.
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Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
