Frank Deford Quotes

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SwimmingPresentYouNewCreation

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Jenny Zhang

EducationMotherHomeMyselfMeShe

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

PeopleBlackPersonSeeMostMany

Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.

Mary Kay Andrews

LoveWomenMusicMenSweetRevenge

Godard never sought to be sympathetic.

Michel Hazanavicius

NeverSympatheticSought

I think this is the funny thing about PWR BTTM that a lot of people don't realize at first, which is that straight people have always loved us - inexplicably, seemingly.

Liv Bruce

FunnyPeopleThinkLovedFirstUs

I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.

Lisa Vanderpump

ChildrenMeHusbandThinkCareYou

Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.

Derek Jeter

GameYouGoWantLyingEveryone

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

Bradley Wiggins

BalanceDownDifficultRightFine

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Anthony Eden

BrokenYouEggsMakeShould

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

Pauline Neville-Jones

WomenLookImportantSeeSuccessful

It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.

Sheila Jackson Lee

WarAuthorityPresidentNationSeek

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Sherman Alexie

SongYouFirstOutComeMix

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