1941 Quotes
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One of the first films I went to - I went with my dad because my mother didn`t want to go see a war movie - was Sergeant York (1941). My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from [World War I]. It was directed by Howard Hawks. That was when I fi...
Clint Eastwood
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[On Citizen Kane (1941) being colorized] "Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."
Orson Welles
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[on the critical plaudits earned by The Last Picture Show (1971)] I`m very gratified by the reception. It`s gone beyond my wildest dreams. To have your picture compared to Citizen Kane (1941) is incredible; certainly it isn`t true, but it`s nice to have i...
Peter Bogdanovich
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`.
Barbra Streisand
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One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the st...
Francois Truffaut
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[February, 1942, accepting his Academy Award for Sergeant York (1941) from James Stewart] "It was Sergeant Alvin York [Alvin C. York] who won this award. Because to the best of my ability, I tried to be Sergeant York. Shucks, I`ve been in the business 16 ...
Gary Cooper
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[on Orson Welles] For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performa...
Ingmar Bergman
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[On Sergeant York (1941)] "I liked the role because I was portraying a good, sound American character."
Gary Cooper
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When I first saw Citizen Kane (1941), I was certain that never in my life had I loved a person the way I loved that film.
Francois Truffaut
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The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he`d be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Leonard Maltin
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Gene Tierney
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
Albert Speer
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On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor`s officers` mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
Andrew Preston
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In 1941 the War Production Board asked if I would go to England and find out how to build the first power gun turret plant in the United States.
Andrei Zubarev
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I received my parents` permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams
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From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.
Alfred L. Kroeber
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As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
Alfred L. Kroeber
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Am I 53 or 54? I think I`m 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I`ll be 55.
Charles Keating
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Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Abdul Jalil
