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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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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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can't rule them all, you can't get an accord from all of them.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.
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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.
