"If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Frank Deford

#Growing Up Quotes #Mean Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me”
“There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.”
“I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.”
“In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.”
“I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby”

Source : The 82nd Annual Academy Awards acceptance speech, www.imdb.com. 2010.
“It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.”
“I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2007.

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