Frank Deford Quotes

That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!

Frank Deford

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Road

• 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.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• 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?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Work
  • Always
  • Down

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Think

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Emotional
  • Wine

• 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.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror.And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Enemy
  • Forest
  • Fierce

• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Compulsion
  • Amusement

• I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Friend

• Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!

  

  Frank Deford