Has Beens – Page 2

I have been a

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me. Gamal Abdel Nasser

Dating back to Teddy

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. Gale Norton

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered. Gale Norton

I think anybody who

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a… factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don’t have time to perfect anything in television. Gale Gordon

Frank [Zappa] said he

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can’t help. Gail Zappa

This is a woman

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the … Read more

A seasoned woman is

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign … Read more

A seasoned woman is

I work continuously within

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher’s desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better. Gail Godwin

None of us suddenly

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. Gail Godwin