Frank Deford Quotes

By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

Topics

SportsMeTalkingEarthCoincidence

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Joanna Trollope

MoreAlwaysDramaticTensionBecause

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

Anna Seward

CriticismMightyListsAgainst

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Mike White

ChangeCulturePeopleTryingYou

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

FutureChildrenJobProgressChoice

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

Jonathan Nolan

WorkPoliticalQuestionsThingsLike

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Debra Lawrance

ResponsibilityPeopleStrongLoved

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Deepika Padukone

MeStoryFilmmakingFilmThanOther

With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body.

Boyd Holbrook

MakeupUnderstandingYouBodyThree

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

Bobby Darin

BestPracticeSingingExcusesYou

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci

ArroganceYouStopAlwaysSomething

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

Alicia Garza

RacismFightWorldActionBlack

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

Piyush Goyal

ThinkYouSayRightEverything

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