Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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I truly did feel that I owed it to my parents, my grandparents, to do whatever it was that I wanted, because if I wasn't happy, if I wasn't being true to myself, then I wasn't living fully. They had given up so much so that I could live at the level that so many people are just automatically born into.
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We have to focus on growing the economy, getting people working again, so they can put a roof over their heads to provide health care and education for their children and plan for their retirement.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
