Fifties Quotes

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I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is. — Richard Dreyfuss
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would… — Augusten Burroughs
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and… — Rose Byrne
I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are… — Olivia Colman
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman
The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put… — Tom Ford
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in… — Robert C. Solomon
It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that… — Michiel Huisman
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from… — Wilfrid Sheed
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… — Carrie Fisher
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… — Erica Jong
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own… — Annie Lennox
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and… — Audre Lorde
In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks… — John Major
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. — John Malkovich
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother… — Joyce Maynard
At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties,… — Gary Oldman
We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like… — Patton Oswalt
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad… — Tom Petty
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of… — Robert Plant

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