Morgan Freeman Quotes
Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
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Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
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Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
