Morgan Freeman Quotes
If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.
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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
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The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
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I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
