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

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• 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

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• 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

• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forward

• 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

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Style
  • Reason
  • Learned

• All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Guided

• The doctor said, 'You have a lump on your breast'. Hearing those words was a reminder, a kick up the bum if you like, telling me that life is very unpredictable.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • Up
  • Words

• When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Spiritual

• 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.