Morgan Freeman Quotes

You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

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• There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Romantic
  • Sense

• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Think
  • Problem

• As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Brain

• With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Pressure
  • Rise

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Like

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Think
  • Enjoyed

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Information

• The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Job
  • Reality
  • Prohibition

• I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Character
  • Sleep
  • Drink

• We cannot be afraid to touch it. We do have to examine new mechanisms like luxury taxes and in particular sporting criteria like squad limitations and fair transfer rules, to avoid player hoarding.

  

  Aleksander Ceferin
  • Taxes
  • Avoid
  • Examine

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Talent
  • Talk
  • Toughness

• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Society
  • Safe
  • Credit

• You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Talent
  • Credit