Frank Deford Quotes
The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.
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I've always actually taken very good care of body.
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I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.
