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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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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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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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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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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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.
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I think nothing's better than lots of water and a good night's sleep to rejuvenate yourself.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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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.'
