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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. -- Ian Somerhalder
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. -- Martin Scorsese
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. -- James Cagney
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo. -- Donna de Varona
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. -- J. Paul Getty
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. -- Judith Jamison
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. -- Hugh Hefner
I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed. -- Hugh Hefner

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