Frank Deford Quotes
'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.
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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.
