Frank Deford Quotes
That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
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Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
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That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!
