Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
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I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
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Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.
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That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
