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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I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
