American - Actor | August 6, 1981 -
I'm the nap champion.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
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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 know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
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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 think that the best songs to sing are songs that you love, because you sing them with love when you love them.
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It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
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Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
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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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It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.
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I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.
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