F. Murray Abraham Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
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There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight.
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I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
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I believe Not more in God's word than in yours; and this Not for your station's sake, nor yet your fame's, How high soe'er the wind of war have blown The splendour of your standard: but, my lord, Your face and heart and speech, being one, require Of any not base-born and servile-souled Faith: and my faith I give you.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
