Margo Jefferson
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KIESZA In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murde... NANCY KRESS Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. ... ALAN COHEN I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every... HAILEY BALDWIN When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy. CHARLES FLEISCHER Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: you... RAUL JULIA IDINA MENZEL You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow... JAKE OWEN MARCELLO GIORDANI JERRY SPINELLI IRIS APFEL BILL HADER CONFUCIUS RICK RIORDAN PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN JODI BENSON PRINCE WILLIAM JOHN LENNON Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to f... TRAVIS BRADBERRY AARON SORKIN When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to a... JULIEANNE O'CONNER DRAGOS BRATASANU DAVID MITCHELL It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your... BRUCE WILKINSON Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anyth... ENYA JUSTIN HAYWARD BARACK OBAMA When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to ac... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com... WANDA SYKES I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby. ABBEY CLANCY ELISABETH SHUE EVEL KNIEVEL AKIROQ BROST When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c... EVERSKEPTIC LAILAH GIFTY AKITA EPICTETUS ADAM GRANT Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and r... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is se... CANDICE SWANEPOEL CHUCK PALAHNIUK RICHARD FEYNMAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody els... BILLY PORTER I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain... ST. LUCIA Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you... CAMPBELL SCOTT If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on... LYNN DAVIES If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking. OLIVIER MEGATON BRYAN BATT RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN DAVE MUSTAINE You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a whi... RAM KAPOOR Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could ... KATE WILLIAMS MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It... DANNY BOYLE STEVE MARABOLI I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think... EVELYNE BROCHU Write 100 things that you love about your partner. Its another way of keeping yourself in check. I... CHRIS PIRILLO TINA TURNER JEFFREY KLUGER LAINI TAYLOR BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE The Creator/God writes your beginning. He writes it perfectly. However, you write your ending yourse... WOHI PURANA JO BRAND NORA EPHRON MITCH ALBOM Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You d... MARY ROACH I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. I... MICHAEL OWEN ROBERT FROST SHAILENE WOODLEY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT SOURCE UNKNOWN Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothin... PHYLICIA RASHAD CHRISTINE QUINN ROY T. BENNETT When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But w... FEFE DOBSON MEHMET MURAT ILDAN OPRAH WINFREY Don't waste your time in finding out what they think about you, rather invest your time in finding o... RITESH AMBASTHA RACHEL GRIFFITHS JEAN NIDETCH AVA DUVERNAY You learn your lessons when your suppose to. If all is lost by that time then losing is apart of you... NERISSA IRVING You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret. ISABELLE ADJANI
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MARGO JEFFERSON Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno... MARGO JEFFERSON No society ever rights a wrong without finding a new one to put in its place MARGO JEFFERSON As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yea... MARGO JEFFERSON Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn. MARGO JEFFERSON You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and... MARGO JEFFERSON I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space... MARGO JEFFERSON If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in pract... MARGO JEFFERSON A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your pare... MARGO JEFFERSON I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if... MARGO JEFFERSON At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor... MARGO JEFFERSON I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever... MARGO JEFFERSON Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain... MARGO JEFFERSON Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking arti... MARGO JEFFERSON Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Moth... MARGO JEFFERSON I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dare... 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MARGO RODRIGUEZ Life is happening so make it happen before it's happened MARGO VADER It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at ... MARGO WOOTAN I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to. MARGO WOOTAN Schools can make money without selling junk food. MARGO WOOTAN The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children, MARGO WOOTAN It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is fo... MARGO WOOTAN This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect ... MARGO WOOTAN It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies. MARGO WOOTAN [Communities that do step up to reverse poor nutrition trends often face considerable opposition fro... MARGO WOOTAN This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french ... MARGO WOOTAN The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other j... MARGO WOOTAN New Dawn Coming MARGO TIMMINS How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that gr... MARGO LANAGAN My aids, or my commands to the horse, should not be visible to the naked eye. It's kind of like when... MARGO DEWKETT It was great that we came from behind and had some adversity. It was a big win for us. MARGO JONKER It had 822 calories and 32 grams of fat. So the calorie content was much higher than the bacon doubl... MARGO RODRIGUEZ Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006. MARGO WOOTAN Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen MARGO VADER Sweet Jane. MARGO TIMMINS There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence i... 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MARGO RODRIGUEZ He's the Bono of Canada. This sort of work that these guys do, they're not just talking about it all... MARGO TIMMINS Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quiet... MARGO TIMMINS It's one of those songs that when we play for an audience it's interesting to see people's reactions... MARGO TIMMINS I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al... MARGO TIMMINS It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio, ... I'd love to have a hit single. However, I ... MARGO TIMMINS Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called, ... And every MARGO TIMMINS By 2010, the net reduction in global emissions from Europe meeting the Kyoto Protocol will be only 0... MARGO THORNING A cooperative global approach to reducing emission growth is more likely to produce real emissions r... MARGO THORNING The findings of our research suggest that an alternative approach (to climate change) is urgently ne... MARGO THORNING We need to focus on things like the [Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate], whi... MARGO THORNING It's just really gross to see kids who don't do a thing, while the grandpas and uncles are working h... MARGO WILLIAMS I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My p... MARGO WILLIAMS It'll take months... and potentially years before the ultimate outcome is known. The management rema... MARGO VIGNOLA MARGO ST. JAMES All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,MARGO T. ROSE Did you say all that you meant toMARGO T. ROSE My mind is like a little house,MARGO T. ROSE It doesn't mean anything;MARGO T. ROSE I'm still looking for someoneMARGO T. ROSE I know you're feeling worried,MARGO T. ROSE We met at a cross-roads in life,MARGO T. ROSE It's not that I'm angry;MARGO T. ROSE I know I've got no reason to be crying;MARGO T. ROSE Your smile breaks my heart,MARGO T. ROSE That thing you thought you'd doMARGO T. ROSE There's no room for me in your world;MARGO T. ROSE Don't be sorry;MARGO T. 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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams an... 
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams an... 
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standa... 
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ... 
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you... 
Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own... 
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... 
When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The f... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo... 
When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of you... 
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet ... 
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... 
I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it fo... 
When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y... 
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you... 
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down ... 
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands... 
Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with lov... 
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just ... 
I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don... 
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little o... 
When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the... 
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you jus... 
Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting... 
You can best write about your own experiences. 
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you wil... 
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you... 
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... 
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain... 
I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is ... 
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But th... 
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. 
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. 
If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your pas... 
Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of tra... 
Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... ... 
Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you... 
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... 
Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the r... 
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life... 
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ... 
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grow... 
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. 
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and ... 
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert... 
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. 
Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. An... 
Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot ... 
You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you... 
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, e... 
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. 
At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat agai... 
If your dream is only about you, it's too small. 
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ig... 
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle... 
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. 
Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message c... 
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. 
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. 
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. 