Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.
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I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.
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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
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I can never stop thanking God because my music influences people in their respective lives.
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Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
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You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
