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Frank Deford Quotes

You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Sports Beer Stand You Statistics

I gave myself the nickname 'Bipolar Rock N' Roller' way back in the 1990s, when - as much as we don't talk about mental health now - back then it was almost nonexistent. And if it was broached, it was done in a very pejorative way.

Health Myself Mental Health Back Way

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

Good School New York City Drama New

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Steven Spielberg

Technology Camera Filmmaking Way

Usually, when I liked athletes growing up, it was because they could hit a ball very far or they can throw a ball very fast. They can shoot a jumper, or they can dunk the ball.

Growing Up Fast Growing Up Shoot

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Laugh Will Breathe Laughable While

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

People Acting Say Kind Some People

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

People Stand Place Out Used Asking

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Mother Age Simple Me Mom Story

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Hands You Try First See Cat

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Failure Motivation Living Why Reason

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

Scotty McCreery

Music Me Country Up Country Music

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Alone Loneliness Human Individual

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