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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about kitchen, painting, contentment

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things, thinking, idea, war, world, love, contentment

The special effects people are so good! If you avoid looking at them until the moment of the performance, it's pretty sharp.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about moment, good, good luck, people, contentment

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about word, music, literature, film, contentment

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment

I decided that these are not secrets in the sense that once you know what the strategy was you'll be able next time to feed it.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about common sense, sense, contentment, time

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about death, contentment

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about problems, contentment

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about journalism, police, doubt, word, public, people, contentment

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Quote by Floyd Abrams about question, law, use, end, day, contentment

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about things, contentment

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about body, contentment

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature, concentration, human imperfections, power, things, contentment

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about nation, people, contentment

Acting is the work of two people. It's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Quote by Victoria Abril about help, work, people, contentment

In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned 21. And when you're 16, 21 seems so far away!

Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Quote by Victoria Abril about eyes, contentment

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Quote by Francis Bacon about error, truth, good, good luck, contentment

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Quote by Victoria Abril about voice, character, contentment, face