Adjournment

The Queen's Gambit 1×6

Alice Harmon: Men are gonna come along and wanna teach you things. Doesn't make them any smarter. In most ways, they're not, but it makes them feel bigger. They can show you how things are done. You just let them blow by, and you go on ahead, and do just what the hell you feel like.

Alice Harmon: It takes a strong woman to stay by herself, in a world where people will settle for anything, just to say they have something.

Benny Watts: You know from your tournament experience you can't rely on your opponent setting himself up for a queen sacrifice, or a surprise mate with a knight and a rook. But that's who you are. You're bored with ordinary chess, even when it's played by Grandmasters.

Benny Watts: We're playing serious chess. Workmanlike chess. The kind of chess played by the best players in the world, the Soviets. And you know why they're the best players in the world?
Beth Harmon: They have the best suits?
Benny Watts: It's because they play together as a team, especially during adjournments. They help each other out. Us Americans, we work alone because we're all such individualists. We don't like to let anyone help us.
Beth Harmon: You're helping me now.
Benny Watts: Am I?

Cleo: You could never be a model. You are pretty enough, but you are much too smart... Models are empty creatures. The camera lens fills them with color and texture, and, once in a while, even mystery. But just like there is no mystery to a vacant lot, it's just there until you put something interesting on top of it… Models are the same. They are just what you put on them.

Benny Watts: You should always play your line, never his. You play what's best for you.
Beth Harmon: Thank you. Anything else?
Benny Watts: One more thing. They never say "check" at the big tournaments.
Beth Harmon: Are you serious?
Benny Watts: Yeah, very. They never lay their kings down, either.
Beth Harmon: I meant, "Are you serious? This is what you're thinking about right now?"

Beth Harmon: If I lived here… I would go to plays, and concerts, and… I would eat lunch in a different cafe every day. And I would dress the way that women do here, you know? So smart with their nice dresses, and their perfect haircuts...
Cleo: You already have so much more than they do. And something that none of them have. Talent. And that can give you a life that anyone would envy.

Beth Harmon: There's nothing keeping me in Kentucky. The possibilities are endless...

Beth Harmon: Why would they pay so much?
Benny Watts: They want us to beat Communists for Jesus.

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