Morgan Freeman Quotes
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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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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The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the Communists, and somehow survives all that and is shuttling between Baghdad and Damascus depending on which way the winds are blowing with the Baathists and their competition. But he's not a regime stooge, he's independent.
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
