Morgan Freeman Quotes
There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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The abstract human mind will have to receive the intended impression by its own means. I always confine myself to expressing the universal, that is, the eternal (closest to the spirit) and I do so in the simplest of external forms, in order to be able to express the inner meaning as lightly veiled as possible.
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The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.
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All I do is go to the movies.
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
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There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
