F. Murray Abraham Quotes
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
