Morgan Freeman Quotes
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.
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I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.
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Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
