In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
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Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't read more
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. read more
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause — you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the read more
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, read more
'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.'
Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a read more
Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people read more
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
