Frank Deford Quotes
When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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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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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.
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All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'
