Matthew Morrison Quotes
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.
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I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
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My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
