Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

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.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1981

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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Jodie Foster

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I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

Matt Salmon

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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Anna Freud

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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

John Perry Barlow

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Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

Sue Wicks

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Some people think it's a reality that black fathers don't take care of their children, but that's not true.

Sinbad

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It's beautiful, shooting in Ireland. It's an amazing country.

Travis Fimmel

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We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

Ronald Frame

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To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.

Michel Hazanavicius

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What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

Jonathan Miller

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The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Brene Brown

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