[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, tak...
Terrence Malick
I hate cooking, so my only concern was fitting a turkey in it on Thanksgiving and I can. (when asks when she will use her newly purchased 1950s stove).
Jane Kaczmarek
[On shooting in London, 2004] In the United States things have changed a lot, and it`s hard to make good small films now. There was a time in the 1950s when I wanted to be a playwright, because until that time movies, which mostly came out of Hollywood, w...
Woody Allen
[when asked by friend Samuel Griffin in the 1950s why she married Gene Raymond instead of Nelson Eddy] I must have had rocks in my head.
Jeanette MacDonald
[from a 1950s interview]: Nobody ever `went Hollywood.` They were already that way when they got here. Hollywood just brought it out in them.
Ronald Reagan
[On the untrained beefcake stars of the early 1950s, many of them picked up for screen tests from sidewalks and gas stations] "Shout `gas` around the studios today, and half the young male stars will come running."
Humphrey Bogart
If a stove like this was good enough for 50s moms, who made three meals a day, then it`s good enough for me! (when asked why she bought her 1950s stove.)
Jane Kaczmarek
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
Andrea Vinyard
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
Michael King
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor`s heydays in the 1950s.
Almeda Jacks
It`s extremely important for U.S. history students to see what came from the Sputnik days of the late 1950s to the present and say, 40 to 50 years from now, where are we going to be in space?` and these students will be part of that.
Robert Gray
It really started getting played in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s with Latin dances like the mambo, cha-cha-cha, samba, and bossa nova. Today, we have the salsa and meringue.
Poncho Sanchez
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
Alex Muxo
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Kary Mullis
I re-read all the plays. I`m not sad. He was out of this world—so common, regular, ordinary, but capable of writing awesome poetry. If someone wants to understand what frustrations we felt in the 1950s read `Fences.` To know about how Blacks were exploi...
Annmarie Robinson
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it`s not.
Penelope Lively
Diane Arbus changed the face of photography with her powerful and moving photographs which captured 1950s and 1960s America. She has had a profound influence on photographers ever since and on the way we look at our fellow human beings. This is a long ove...
Mark Jones
[In the 1950s, he began conducting symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada and in Europe. He first conducted] pops ... one of the great train wrecks of my life.
Andy Crouch