Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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People didn't stop me before for a guest spot that I did on 'Smallville.' Nothing against 'Smallville,' but people didn't freak out in traffic to tell me they love my show.
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I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
