#news

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

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news. ↗

— Sean Bean

#always #book #ever #fantastic #feature

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#actually #audience #clip #comes #genuine

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#gossip #i #i tried #information #instead

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#anyone #arsenal #article #bottom #call

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world? ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#days #feel #feel good #good #how

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cbs #cbs news #elements #how #i

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#already #any #been #did #festival

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#i #news #photographer #started #texan