Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
