Morgan Freeman Quotes
All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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It paints a portrait of a man attempting to cope with being a human.
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The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.
