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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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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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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It hit me really hard that I want kids in my life.
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They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
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I studied in eight schools and did not get to be in a school for more than two years, as I was always requested to get out, even though I was not thrown out ever.
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I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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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.
