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If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.


Julian Barnes


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We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.


Craig Charles


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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.


John Connally


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The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.


Brian Cox


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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.


Marc Davis


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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.


John Major


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In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.


Marc Maron


#could #great #name #probably #seventies

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.


W. Somerset Maugham


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I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.


Paul Merton


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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.


John Perkins


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