Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!
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If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
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As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
