#fifties

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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, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.


Gary Oldman


#acting #away #backside #below #belt

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 movements of reserves among countries.


Robert C. Solomon


#back #balance #countries #days #deficits

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.


Elizabeth Hardwick


#asked #belief #drifting #except #fifties

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.


Rowan Atkinson


#also #apart #be careful #becomes #being

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 would not call themselves feminists.


Audre Lorde


#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.


Robert Klein


#bronze #chasing #dogs #donuts #dream

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.


Randal Kleiser


#baby #baby boomers #boomers #cast #fifties

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.


Robert Jay Lifton


#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties

I fought for peace in the fifties.


Pete Seeger


#fought #i #peace

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.


David Kynaston


#britain #drinking #fifties #home #television