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Frank Deford Quotes

If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens themselves.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Team Green America Way Up Little

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

Joan Didion

People Leaving California Everything

It was either write or die for me.

Michael Hastings

Me Die Write Either

When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!

Shira Goodman

Go Harvard Course Tigers Princeton

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

Tony Judt

Time Space People Ideas World Turn

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Tom G. Palmer

Small Survival Cooperation Human Nor

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

Robin S. Sharma

Work Morning Great Job Door Ego

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Roxane Gay

Cool Pink Black Say Shades Colour

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

Misty Copeland

Live Day Every Day Class Capable

You gotta be able to change worlds.

Courtney Love

Change You Able Worlds Gotta

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

Chris Pine

Good Father Business Win Game You

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian Aldiss

Work Creativity Easy Matter Become

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

William Greider

People Retirement Enough Healthcare