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Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) - The 32,000 strong trade union for those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and allied industries. A well designed, frequently updated site.
BECTU BBC - BBC branch of Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union with news, information on pay and conditions and branch contacts.
BECTU Special Effects (SFX) Branch - Special effects industry branch news, contacts and events.
BECTU Birmingham One - News and contacts for Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union members in BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham
BECTU Commercial West End Theatres - News and contacts for Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union members in London West End theatres.
BECTU ESPG (Engineering Studios Post Group) - Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union branch based at BBC television centre in West London, representing non-management categories in studios, post production, broadcast engineering and technical services.
BECTU Sky - Representing employees of BSkyB, with new, features and advice on legal issues in the workplace.
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Man and wife make one fool. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union
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