Ethan Mordden Quotes
...college wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
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I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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At drama school, I got a job choreographing and teaching the fights for Mark Rylance doing 'Hamlet' at the Globe in London when I was only 19. They made me fight captain.
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...college wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic.
