Margo Jefferson Quotes

You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1947

Topics

FamilyChangeHomeNew YorkIdentity

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.

Joe Garcia

JobRegretWell DoneDoneNothing

I was studying chemistry, and this is a physically hard job because you are in the laboratory, you work hard, and you come home in the late afternoon or in the evening and you always needed a break.

Joachim Sauer

WorkHomeJobWork HardEveningYou

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

Jennifer Pahlka

YouRiskNeverTolerateInnovate

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

PerfectionRestFeelLongHumanity

I do not love performing. I get really scared.

Sia

LoveScaredGetPerformingReally

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Tom Reed

GoodPerspectivePoliticsDriveNeed

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

Ron Kovic

HomeDayDeathI AmLivingJuly

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Roddy Doyle

ChildSometimesSeemCutBeing

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

Ross Kemp

HomeGreatMyselfNeverWatching

It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

Jean Chatzky

FearBetterPictureFeelHelpYou

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

PoliceAmericaDownInnocentGuns

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Pete Seeger

MyselfCommunismMoreCallCommunist

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