Frank Deford Quotes

To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

Andrew Breitbart

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The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.

John Logan

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Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

Matt Smith

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My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Matthew Macfadyen

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I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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I have a big problem with Islam.

Michel Onfray

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We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Jon Porter

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Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Chris Smith

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I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Ally Sheedy

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I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

Peter Mullan

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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Paul Wellstone

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