Ethan Mordden Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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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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In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.
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Reachable goals are worth the struggle.
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Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.
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For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
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If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.