Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Thought

• I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Said
  • Kiss
  • Mouth

• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Someone
  • Impression

• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Always
  • Made
  • One Thing

• I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Mind
  • Stop
  • Things

• When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Best

• I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • War
  • Words
  • Die

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The best company management is one that combines a sense of corporate greatness and destiny, with empathy for - and fidelity to - the average employee.

  

  David Packard
  • Destiny
  • Management
  • Greatness

• In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Good
  • Success
  • Popular

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Want
  • Success
  • Change

• I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.