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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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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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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You're gifted to do something.
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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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A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
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Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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I'm just very good at pretending.
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You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.
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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.
