Arena: Screen Goddesses TV - Rona Goffen - John Ruskin - Louisa May Alcott - Eric Cantona - Jack Nicklaus - Leo Tolstoy -
Bette Davis & Joan Crawford were said to be screen rivals – their currency was power and willpower. Bette Davis was a supreme technician of screen acting. Arena: Screen Goddesses ***** BBC 2012
There was terrible rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo. Professor Rona Goffen
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship. John Ruskin
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests. Louisa May Alcott
As long as a rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it can only spur everyone on. Eric Cantona
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. Jack Nicklaus
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good. Levin belonged to the second class. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina