Margo Jefferson Quotes

Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

Jim Lee

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We had - there was 'Laverne and Shirley,' but 'Happy Days' started off the evening, and then, you know, we just sort of swam along with them.

John Ritter

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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Steve Buscemi

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Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

Russ Feingold

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I start kind of stiff, and then I understand the movement, the distance, and then I can start loosening up. That's how fighting should be. That's how I try to keep my mind.

Luke Rockhold

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I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

Clive Anderson

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When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Brian Johnson

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Peter Coyote

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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

Sheryl Sandberg

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I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.

Tika Sumpter

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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Thomas Day

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