Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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A novel is not a rant.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
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My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
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I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.
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I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.
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You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
