Frank Deford Quotes
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
