Morgan Freeman Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.
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I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
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'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.
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Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
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I'll never go round slagging Arsenal off, because I've had 13 fantastic years there.
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The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
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My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
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There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.
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I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.
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More than half of the world’s population, struggle for food – but we expect privilege.
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Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.
