Margo Jefferson Quotes

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

John Logan

ColorsWritingBondThinkYouWill

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

BestCaliforniaSystemWouldEver

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

Ann Hood

FamilyFatherFutureMemoriesAlone

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Steven Spielberg

GrowWantGrow UpDirectorUpStill

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Tony McCoy

FailureGoodPerspectiveMeBetter

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

Tom Glavine

TeamWorldBetterNothingOutThan

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Ruth Brown

SingingThinkTalkingYouMy Own

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Rollo May

PeopleRealityLoseFeelingOthers

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Mason Cooley

TimeAheadLittleSuccessfulYour

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

Montel Williams

GiftReachTalkAbilityMayWell

If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Jason Calacanis

RelationshipPeopleYouMoreDeepest

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Deepak Chopra

DeathThinkSelfBehaviorLongYou

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