#tee

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #committee #dread #go #i

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #gasps #humor #jealous #shark-s-teeth

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#big #business #discover #especially #fairly

And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-romance #beauty

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#believing #child #crucial #forever #grand

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#confidence #self-assurance #self-esteem #self-worth #style

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#ever #grow #i #many #out

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#every #hours #living #provides #relief

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#before #curve #films #just #learning