Ethan Mordden Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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There's always a source for humor.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
