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've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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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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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
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I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
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I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
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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.
