Fifties Quotes

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor. Andie MacDowell
Time Great Me People Wonderful Thirty Guide Had New Great Time Accent Known Polish Dialect Years Wonderful People Done Fifties Coach Working Film Actor Thing Two
It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously! Andra Day
Black Awesome Thirties Would Born Except Prime Obviously Been Being Fifties Your Whole Thing
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way. Andra Day
Style Way More Through Picked Couple Got Up Decades Established Then Fifties Forties Things Dragged
In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties. Anna Wintour
People World Think Enormous Back Guide Would Dreamt Someone More Vogue More People Fact Through Like Reaching Audiences Than Sixties Influential Fifties Help Many Fascinating Now Ever Actually
My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties. Anton du Beke
Father Hungarian End Uprising Moved Spanish Fifties Mum Here Britain
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it. Bernardo Bertolucci
Love Cinema Dreamers Revolution Late Total Directors Like French Italy Movement Sixties Happened Fantastic Fifties Homage Early Vague
People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all. Brian Fallon
War People Remember School Thought Cold Cold War Kids Ideal Because Were Get Getting Going Sixties Fifties Really Bombed
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. Bruno Mars
Music Me Listening Word Head Because Rock Up Very Roll Grew Loved Fifties Special Who Dad
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day. Carrie Fisher
Day Parents Pictures Known Brad Were Brad Pitt Covers America Pitt Newspapers Fifties Jennifer
I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress. Cherie Lunghi
Home Me Class People School Minority Living Fathers Had Outsider Pick Name Come Like Majority Felt Foreign Up Very Grew Which Fifties Helped Daddy Aware Actress
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties. Christopher Buckley
Women Sometimes Think Cindy Definite Emerged McCain Happens Fifties Early
In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it. Chuck Berry
Good You Man Feel Good Ride Black White White House Possibility About Feel House Were Being Places Bus Fifties Certain Now
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. David Foster Wallace
Differences Way Postmodern One-Way About Writers Between Contemporary Talking Sixties Might Fifties Descendants Start Early
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs. Duane Michals
Photography Generation People Late Photographers Would Photographs My Generation Something Bought Nobody Became Were Chicago Maybe Rewards Sixties Galleries Fifties Show Who Shows Early Museum
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. Dylan McDermott
Good Looking Pool Back Frank Frank Sinatra Kind Atmosphere Martin Had Shark Sinatra Looking Good Him Because Always Dean Hip Priority Dean Martin Still Been Going Then Fifties Cool Fascinated Dad Thing
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves. Eavan Boland
Time Girl Young Radical Society Changes Saw Way Those London New Knowing Alteration Without Ready Were Years York Getting New York Happen Happening Young Girls Themselves Fifties Lived Profoundest Consequence
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled. Edgar Winter
Music Time Me Big Band Doors Jazz Believe Think Seventies Unparalleled Classic Somehow Tempted Feel Like Big Band Rock Eras Were Up The Doors Sixties Golden Grew Which Fifties Forties Really Special Groups Swing Two
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties. Edmund White
Great Water Rose Our Arbitrary Seeming Triumph Constructed Onto Had Fell Bed How Beds Been Up Normality Heated Just Sixties Fifties Twin
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. Erica Jong
Man Women Amazing Own Our Seventies See Attached Delight Know Identity Stigma Prove Any Sixties Being Anymore Fifties Who Many Need
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. Geoffrey Rush
Ego Old Tough Hair Out Would Would-Be Easy Having Nobody Unusual Parts Said Just Hold Newspaper Then Fifties Forties Body Your Your Body Growing Growing Old Ever
The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed. Gian Carlo Menotti
Guilt Experiment Creation Catholic Because Felt Always Being Social Fifties Suffered Need Needed
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Hannah Arendt
You Know Disgusting Fifties
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. Hilton Als
Life Change Women Black Stage White Musicals Composers Rely Although How Still Lot Familiar American Did Often Representing Movement Sixties Fifties
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. Jackson Browne
Music History People College Country Young Our College Students General Students Almost Contained Like Around Real Began End Young People Realize Fifties Right
I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera. Jed Mercurio
Knowledge Man Fly Monster Frankenstein Insect Would Cronenberg Remake Crude Combination Him Version Depict Whereas Exploited Fifties Original Compare
Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules. Jeff Beck
Great Musical Rules Those Distortion Moore Bad Solos Stayed Industrial Sort Cliff Nasty Scotty Any Listen Listened Note Fifties Played
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