Morgan Freeman Quotes

If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

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• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
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• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
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  • Inspire

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • World
  • Music
  • Friends

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
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• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Reality
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
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• When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

  

  Rachael Harris
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  • Night
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• Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

  

  Austin Dillon
  • Career
  • Faith
  • Christian

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Bumps

• Do we need to go into the circumstances of Ian’s death? Not really; they are well documented and I’ve already done that in my Joy Division book and, anyway, all the books are about Ian’s death in a way. We were very young. I was just twenty-four and, looking back now, in my early sixties, shockingly young to have to deal with any of it. We were now very, very nervous. What would happen? Would we succeed in any way now Ian had gone? Were we good enough on our own . . . without him? We were scared.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
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  • Way
  • Circumstances

• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  

  R. A. Lafferty

• If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

  

  Morgan Freeman
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  • Script