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“There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.”
“Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'”
| Toni Cade Bambara, Author (1939) |
| Matthew Barney, Artist (1967) |
| Bela Bartok, Composer (1881) |
| John Ensign, Politician (1958) |
| Edward Felten, Scientist (1963) |
| Elton John, Musician (1947) |
| David Lean, Director (1908) |
| Goodman Ace, Writer (1982) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1980) |
| Claude Debussy, Composer (1918) |
| Max Eastman, Author (1969) |
| Milton H. Erickson, Psychologist (1980) |
| Greg Garrison, Director (2005) |
| Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Public Servant (1983) |
| Nunnally Johnson, Director (1977) |