Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
I'm in no way running from 'Hamilton' or its success or these beautiful songs that I've been blessed to be able to be the one to introduce them. I certainly won't be the last to sing them, but to be the first, I feel very lucky.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Good design should be honest.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
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They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly) They call me mellow yellow...
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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
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It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.
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I'm in no way running from 'Hamilton' or its success or these beautiful songs that I've been blessed to be able to be the one to introduce them. I certainly won't be the last to sing them, but to be the first, I feel very lucky.
