Margo Jefferson Quotes
Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
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I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
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I want my clients to trust me.
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Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.
