Margo Jefferson Quotes

In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ConflictWorldFashionYouGeneral

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

John Cameron Mitchell

CulturePeopleMindGayWayUp

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

Michael Fassbender

PeopleFeelUncomfortableWayNormal

A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.

Robert Webb

CityMeNightFeelHotelGo

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

Mickey Mantle

YouCountrySayGuessAboutCould

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

Miguel Zenon

AmericanFeelMeanWriteStuffEven

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Dawn French

HeartI AmKidBoxAm

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Connie Smith

LoveMusicDeepCountryTraditional

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina

HumorSense Of HumorImportantIrony

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Antony Hewish

PhysicsMoreUniversityBeenGeneral

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Anthony Holden

PositiveWaitProblemHimAlways

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James

TimeTravelMeResearchBookNews

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

LovedYouRidiculousDaysShootDid

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