Margo Jefferson Quotes

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BalanceFindWantUnknownSeeCall

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.

Jim Coleman

PoliceSchoolTruckHigh SchoolStop

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

Jill Soloway

LifeAloneTimeHappyBeing Alone

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

Max Holloway

PeopleSayingHellYouDeserveOut

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Matt Passmore

TimeMeThinkPlaceStopKnow

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

Michael Connelly

TimeWordsLunchDinnerWorldTop

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Sophia Bush

LifeLife Is Too ShortWineShort

Artifice is art.

Sonia Rykiel

ArtArtifice

I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can't qualify as a 'cultured society' simply because we've actually created a society that works.

Steven Crowder

SocietyUnitedBecauseFarConcerned

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Sienna Miller

NatureHuman NatureAchieveHard

I just have been so surprised and delighted with what has happened with 'Hamilton.' It really has been one of the most enchanting experiences of my life.

Ron Chernow

LifeMy LifeExperiencesBeenJust

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Ondaatje

TimeMeViewYouPoint Of ViewSame

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Dennis Weaver

YouKnowBeginOutTensionFilm

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