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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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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A lot of my inspiration comes from everyday people.
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Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites
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We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.
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When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.
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I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
