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" Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. "

Morgan Freeman

Great

Better

Promises

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" But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it. "

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Live

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" My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. "

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" Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? "

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Music

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