Frank Deford Quotes

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty sophomoric.

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• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

  

  Laura Marano
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• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
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• Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  

  Kate Morton
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• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
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• As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

  

  Tad Williams
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• All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'

  

  Martin Amis
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• I'm tired of people taking off their clothes.

  

  Whitney Houston
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• It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica

• ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty sophomoric.

  

  Frank Deford
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