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Mark Twain supposedly observed, 'Don't pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.' Of course, today, he probably would have added, 'And hairspray by the gallon'.


Thomas F. Calcagni

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F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I though...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sit...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. ...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable wi...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of thei...
F. H. BRADLEY The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. BRADLEY True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEY Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEY Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand h...
F. H. BRADLEY The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temp...
F. H. BRADLEY There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be...
F. H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso...
F. H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B...
F. H. BRADLEY The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEY The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEY