Frank Deford Quotes

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.

Frank Deford

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

Damon Albarn Blur
- Up
- Different
- Business
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

Taylor Sheridan
- Important
- Me
- Shine
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

Vincent D'Onofrio
- Work
- Directors
- Europe
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Sam Levenson
- Child
- Toy
- Youngest
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer
- School
- True
- Pretty