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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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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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
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The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.
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There are only two classes - first class and no class.
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I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
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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.
