Margo Jefferson Quotes

I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestYearGuiltyImportantOutBeat

I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.

Jimmy Smits

TimeSchoolI AmFunLooking Back

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

May Sarton

LoveRelationshipPartnerFeelUp

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

Sonny Sandoval

LoveMusicGodKnowWriteHow

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Tracey Ullman

DownClassIrishAlwaysUpMiddle

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

Tom Hooper

SomedayYearningHuge

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

Robert Ben Garant

GoodYourselfSmallYouSayTeach

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Russell Smith

I AmDetailLookingRealFiction

The casual listener won't be around forever.

Mike Shinoda

CasualForeverListenerAround

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

Mike Krzyzewski

CommunityTimeParentsCityToo Much

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

Jay Asher

ActionGoingEveryWaysCould

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

Johnny Ramone

TimeGuitarDoingFastPlayAlways

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Chuck Close

MeThinkDoingI ThinkVeryDrove

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