Frank Deford Quotes

Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

Frank Deford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DaughterChildrenPeopleSickThink

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

Jennifer Hudson

DreamsMeTrueProofComeAnyone

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

Jennifer Saunders

MeGrowing UpFatLookBackYoung

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

John Dalberg-Acton

NatureWorldNothingWildForce

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Amy Ray

WorkPeoplePerformanceThinkYou

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

Amy Waldman

TruthGreatRealityYouConfusion

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

Roger Penrose

BrotherChampionChessUpBritish

When your time comes, you need to grab it with both hands.

Rita Ora

TimeHandsYouNeedYourGrab

The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.

Jay Parini

ImmigrantsNumbersBritishMuslim

I was an outcast. I was from a town of wrestlers and football players.

Jason Momoa

FootballOutcastPlayersTown

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

Jonathan Pryce

ActorDifferenceStar

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

Jorja Smith

WalkWallsSchoolNeverWriteUsed

Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

Derek Jeter

PeopleThinkThinkingSomeoneSaid

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