If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
Joseph Rykwert
YouLookStreet1920sMarbleOff
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
Julie Andrews
TodayThinkKnow1920sAudience
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
Lauren Bacall
Loved1920sLivedIf I CouldBeen
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
Naomi Wolf
AmericanTarget1920sChinaItaly
From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.
Jenny Packham
FashionMore1920sHistorical1980s
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.
Tony Bennett
Best1920sRenaissanceUnited1940s
I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.
Jonny Greenwood
DayMeBookThinkLook1920s
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'
Jan Vogler
TimeGlitter1920sYearsPortraits
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
Issey Miyake
FreedomClothes1920sWonderfulHer
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
J. Paul Getty
FriendsEarly1920sJackVery
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
Robert Gottlieb
1920sOnlyChestFlatCharleston
While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
Tom Reiss
MusicWriting1920sPopFinished
I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.
Colin Hanks
Place1920sUpAnythingPlanetLike
Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
David Rockefeller
MotherAmerican1920sArtists
I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
Francois Nars
WomenFreedomThinkEvolution1920s
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
Hans Adolf Krebs
GreatProgressSugar1920sStudy
I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.
Matthew Gray Gubler
StyleI Am1920sAm
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when it's hot and sticky.
Roger Stone
BestDatingGentlemanHot1920sBet
I fell in love with playing the trumpet because of what we call 'hot jazz' of the 1920s and 1930s, music that has a higher energy to it.
Bria Skonberg
LoveMusicEnergyJazzHot1920s
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
David Gross
TraditionPhysics1920sQuantumHad
It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.
Yasmine Hamdan
WomenCulture1920sActiveAlways
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
Edmund Phelps
GrowthPeoplePlaceNew1920sOver
Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.
Matthew Pearl
BeginningShadowMindsMore1920s
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