Frank Deford Quotes

First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.

Frank Deford

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Author Biography

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

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SportsPeopleGameYouBadKnow

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Jim McKay

SportsThinkTalkJustHeI Think

We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be.

Jochen Zeitz

VisionCreativePeopleDirectionSet

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Joan Jett

SoulMeOpportunitiesSayMy Own

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

John Cusack

LifeFearCourageGreatArtPain

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Robert Rodriguez

MyselfThinkAudienceCoreJust

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

LoveCulturePerfectionStudy

I am a very bad cook.

Rithvik Dhanjani

I AmBadCookVeryAm

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

MoneyCompassionGovernmentPeople

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

Christian Lacroix

LoveI AmDrawingHotEverything

I'm Canadian, so I'm a big fan of the Canadian tuxedo - that's what we call it. I wear it all the time.

Brad Goreski

TrustMeWantClientsTrust Me

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

Arne Glimcher

ArtStandYouDignityHawkSell

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Wislawa Szymborska

MemoryLookNothingMineOnlyWhile

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