Finding Forrester (2000)
F. Murray Abraham: Crawford
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Quotes
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Prof. Robert Crawford : [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball.
Jamal : "Further"
Prof. Robert Crawford : What?
Claire Spence : [whispered to Jamal] Don't...
Jamal : [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball. "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further".
Prof. Robert Crawford : Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?
Jamal : Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.
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Prof. Robert Crawford : Perhaps the challenge should have been directed elsewhere. "It is a melancholy truth that even...
Jamal : "great men have poor relations" Dickens.
Prof. Robert Crawford : "You will hear the beat of..."
Jamal : Kipling.
Prof. Robert Crawford : "All great truths begin..."
Jamal : Shaw.
Prof. Robert Crawford : "Man is the only animal...
Jamal : "that blushes... or needs to." That's Mark Twain.
Jamal : Come on, Professor Crawford...
Prof. Robert Crawford : [shouting] Get out!
Prof. Robert Crawford : [whispered] Get... out.
Jamal : Yeah. I'll get out.