Pageant Girl Quotes

#1. Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

Jacqueline Susann

#2. You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To love your story.

Angelica Banks

#3. Mothers weep and Sons be dumb
your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV

Allen Ginsberg

#4. I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

Ronda Rousey

#5. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Thomas Fuller

#6. If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'

Christopher Sieber

#7. I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

Eva Longoria

#8. I must be very clear in one thing ... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Joyce Giraud

#9. I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

Amanda Latona

#10. I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.

Cynthia Ozick

#11. I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Joyce Giraud