Frank Deford Quotes
I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.Frank Deford
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
Malin Akerman -
We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
Bassem Youssef -
I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
Haniel Long -
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz -
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
Taylor Branch -
There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
Barbara Sukowa -
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
Gary Sheffield -
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten -
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
Vance Joy -
I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
Taylor Swift
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You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
Ashley Wagner -
Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
Vince Flynn -
Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.
Alex Morgan -
There's always been a trend toward simpler painting and it was bound to happen one way or another. Whenever painting gets complicated, like Abstract Expressionism, or surrealism, there's going to be someone who's not painting complicated paintings, someone who's trying to simplify...
Frank Stella -
Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.
Dennis Farina -
I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.
Frank Deford