Frank Deford Quotes
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.
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It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!
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We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.
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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
