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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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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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 favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.
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Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
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As long-term business builders, we invest our permanent capital and deploy management skills in support of talented leaders and companies with global potential.
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You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.
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As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.
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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.
