Ethan Mordden Quotes
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
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At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.
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When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
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I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
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My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
