1930s Quotes - Page 6

• I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

  Katie Holmes

  Book, Two, Objects

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

  Sergio Leone

  Years, Able, Intense

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rising, Literature, Frightened

  Source: www.iww.org

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• They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Unions, Used, Marxist

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• I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Play, Berlin, Pounds

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Opposites, Today

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• Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

  Peter Eisenman

  Germany, Moments, Overboard

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.

  Joan Crawford

  Hurt, Hollywood, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

  Simon Barnes

  Sports, Team, Two

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• I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

  Marco Pirroni

  Fans, Horror, Film

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

  Robert P. Murphy

  Pumps, Investment, Enough

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• A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Real, Play, Tuesday

  "Speculative bubbles don't just pop - they may deflate and reflate" by Robert J. Shiller, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

  Paul Krugman

  Money, America, Gold

  "Golden Instability", krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. August 26, 2012.

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• The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Pestilence

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• There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Reading, Fascination

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

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• When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

  Jerry Robinson

  College, Agency, Doors

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• Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War, Years, Pestilence

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• Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Home, Wings

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.

  Andrew Tudor

  Distance, Mind, Typical

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• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Robert Towne

  Past, California, Capes

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• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Impact, Long, Depth

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• I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

  Megan Abbott

  New York, Writing, Years

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• I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Cousin, Memories

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Thinking, World

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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