F. Murray Abraham Quotes
With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
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The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
