RAMBLING ROSE

“I’m the only sex symbol Britain has produced since Lady Godiva.” 

Diana Dors, who died on this day in 1984

“I don’t want to be the highest paid film star in the world. When I am old and in a rocking chair, I may need a roof over my head, but I want memories of having been a real actress.” 

Marilyn Monroe in ‘Bus Stop’, 1956

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

 Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

“My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light!”

Edna St Vincent Millay

‘Ginger and Rosa’ (dir. Sally Potter, 2012)

“I loved you, Rosa. But we are different…”

Jack Delano’s image of four children of a ‘squatter’ family - homeless, migrant workers - as they leave the Spartanburg army camp, South Carolina in 1941

‘Stormy Day at Brighton’, Charles Conder, 1905

Print by Charles J Basebe, 1848, Brighton Museums

“They don’t think they’re too tough or desperate,
They know that the law always wins;
      They’ve been shot at before,
      But they do not ignore
That death is the wages of sin.”

Bonnie Parker, ‘The Story of Bonnie and Clyde’

Still from ‘W.E.’

“And I’m right by your side
Like a thief in the night
I stand in front of a masterpiece…”