Margo Jefferson Quotes

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

Jim Starlin

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Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Joe Dempsie

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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

John Guare

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Reading is important.

John Garfield

ReadingImportant

Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.

Andrew Solomon

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When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

Ann-Margret

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I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

Michael Ignatieff

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The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.

Johnny Christ

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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Steve Jobs

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I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

Robin Wright

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Not everybody in the world who is an opponent of our opponent is necessarily going to be a friend of ours.

Ron Estes

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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

Michelle Hunziker

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