Frank Deford Quotes
I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
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I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.
