Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
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I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'
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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
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I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
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I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
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I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.
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We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.
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I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
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I started out with this 'La Boheme' fantasy, but as you get older, the 'La Boheme' fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me.
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The time I spent in New York when I was 17 gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams with my whole heart.
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You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.
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Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!
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None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.
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I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
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'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.
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I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.
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What a casting director does is they're a connector.
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My dad was an early hip-hop fan.