Frank Deford Quotes
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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If the Trump campaign, or anybody associated with it, aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of our democracy in history.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.
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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
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I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.
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My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
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I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
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Beauty is less important than quality.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.
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I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
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The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.
