Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Lucky
  • Enormous
  • Metabolism

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Hate
  • Used
  • Would

• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

  

  Charlie Rich
  • Guy

• I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Art