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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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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Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
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Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
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I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.
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Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.
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How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.
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In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
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The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.
