F. Murray Abraham Quotes
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.
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Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
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Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
