#ale

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#anthony hopkins #antonio #brilliant #doing #everybody

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #defined #female #human #human being

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#another #bishop #find #go #go find

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#barriers #erected #far #farther #industry

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money

Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#love #perfect-chemistry #love

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#action movies #around #because #difficult #especially