Frank Deford Quotes
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.Frank Deford
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
Rachel Griffiths -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster -
We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
Vidal Sassoon -
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
C. L. R. James -
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
Rachel Nichols -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
Jim Doyle -
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
Eric Topol -
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
David Crystal -
'Stargate SG-1' is one of Sci Fi's sure-fire hits. It's got one of the best ensemble casts on television and one of the best production teams as well.
Bonnie Hammer -
Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
Frank Deford