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'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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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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I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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I've seen things change and people forget: the history of Berlin, the history of queer struggle, the history of AIDS, the history of New York changing from an artistic powerhouse to more of a financial one now.
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You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.
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I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.
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People want things with meaning. I know that because I want that.
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I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
