Quotes with has-been

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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • John Morley Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Bell Hooks Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Bush Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood... but everyone has something to give.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Toni Morrison Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Flores Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Joan Didion Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
    Source:  (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Someone has to stand up for wimps.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bruno Mars Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Bill Goldberg Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Art Linkletter Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Anthony Kennedy Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Brandt Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Stephen King Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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