Morgan Freeman Quotes
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
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I never use that word, retire.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
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The casual listener won't be around forever.
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Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?
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A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.
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I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?
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We have always been disciplined in our approach to acquisitions, ... Being disciplined means knowing when it is time to walk away. That time is now.
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We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
