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Fairy tales only happen in movies.
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s - a period when Hollywood worked — Ben Shapiro

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.' — Christian Louboutin

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought. — James Bovard

I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun. — Evan Peters

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then. — John Kricfalusi

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for Â£1000. I've bought a Â£400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant. — Gabrielle Aplin

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time. — Nanette Lepore

I can't believe that 24 hours ago I was in an Egyptian tomb and now here I am, on the verge of a madcap, Manhattan weekend. — Tam Francis

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

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s. — George Nelson

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. — Noam Chomsky

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors. — George H. W. Bush

Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. — Barry Eichengreen

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten. — King Albert II

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. — Noam Chomsky

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. — Stephen Ambrose

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment. — Edmund Phelps

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews. — Sarah

The sun?" Goldman said in an unguarded moment. "I hear they've shot it. — Alan Furst

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards. — Justine Larbalestier

The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. — John F. Kennedy

In the 1920s and 1930s they hit upon the bright idea of co-opting genetics and treating it as one of the Theory of Evolution's components. A — Tom Wolfe

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara

Fifth of American families lived on farms in the 1930s, — Gail Collins

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue. — Edmund Phelps

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. — Wynton Marsalis

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo. — Hideo Kojima

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth

The techniques that were used in the 1930s to reset the economy will simply not work today. Gordon L. Eade — Kenneth Eade

An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy] — Maria Martin

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring. — Dieter Rams

Of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s. — Donna Tartt

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different. — Gene Luen Yang

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future. — William Gibson

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. — Noam Chomsky

The term 'racism' was coined in the 1930s, primarily as a response to the Nazi project of making Germany judenrein, or 'clean of Jews'. The — Ali Rattansi

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. — Yanis Varoufakis

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians. — Milton Friedman

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. — Kenzo Tange

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. — Emma Brockes

I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s. — Mark Hadlow

Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future. — Michael Moorcock

The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war. — Mark Kirk

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s. — Terry Jones