F. Murray Abraham Quotes
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'
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I don't know what to say. Maybe the next game we do the same thing. Maybe we'll turn it on in the second half. Everybody has to function at the same time.
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I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
