Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
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I have learned from experience that a modicum of snuff can be most efficacious.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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It's always a good idea to go up for the male roles. You go up against a bunch of beefy guys, and the casting director then feels smart for taking you on, like he's the one who thought outside the box.
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I don't want to leave anything offstage.
