Morgan Freeman Quotes
Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I love twins stories.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.
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I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
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How does one get bored of life?
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You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
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The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
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Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.
