"Not everything in my life has been pretty."

-- Frances Newton

#Has Beens Quotes

“Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?”
“I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.”

Source : "Connor Paolo dishes on Revenge and his Gossip Girl BFF!" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2012.
“But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.”
“You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.”
“Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.”
“Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.”
“The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.”

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