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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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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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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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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He's committed and he wants to get better on the defensive side. I want him to be very responsible. I'm asking a lot out of a 20-year-old kid, but on the other hand, he's playing like an elite player. And he is an elite player.
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Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.
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Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.
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If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
