Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
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I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.
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I don't know, maybe I just like to mix it up and have a more of an eclectic need to just try out new things and road test ideas and try out a genre that I haven't done before.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
