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Frank Deford Quotes

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Positive People Reading Enough Say

The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

Best America Selling Wrestling Right

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

Good Day Words Child Writing Play

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Robert Gottlieb

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Love Time Keep Going Fire Me Back

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

Great Day Intelligence Game View

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

Today Think Special Something Us He

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

Sometimes Three Understand Matter

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

Lloyd Blankfein

Make Would Nerd Even Liked

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

Road More Hard Concrete Bones Offer

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

Experience War Learn Giving Wrong

I look forward to joining the great team at Ericsson and work closely with existing and new customers around the world.

Work Great Team World Forward Look

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

Austan Goolsbee

Fire Government People Hotel Pool

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