#tale

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#caught #character #construction #does #done

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#bigger #lips #talent

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#fairytale #beauty

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

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#believe #fairy #fairy tales #half #how

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#club #committing #english #english football #fantastic

Talent is only the starting point. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#point #starting #starting point #talent

Let the path be open to talent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#path #talent

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#before #bit #could #end #everything