Frank Deford Quotes

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

Frank Deford

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• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eye

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Romantic
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Community
  • Day
  • Challenges

• Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Book
  • Age
  • First

• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Marriage

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Fight
  • Rights
  • Against

• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Up
  • Future

• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Children
  • Money

• If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Pleasure

• I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping accommodations and decided I was too middle class to put up with that! So then I joined the theater and found I could choose my own bedroom. I loved the atmosphere. I loved that we worked till midnight and didn't start till ten.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Up
  • Fun

• Millennials want to live in urban areas.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Live

• We're the older group on the field right now. To ease the transition, our job is to always be in the right spot, so the quarterback doesn't have to find us, and to never show disgust with the quarterback on the field, because the fans and the media will see that and start to criticize him, and by the same token lower his confidence.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Fans
  • Field
  • Transition

• I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Alone
  • Prayer

• In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

  

  Frank Deford