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Claudia Cardinale dancing on a roof terrace in Rome in 1959
Claudia Cardinale birthday today
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Happy Birthday, Marceline Day! Seen here with Buster Keaton in an official publicity still for The Cameraman (1928)
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Happy Birthday, Shirley MacLaine!
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Life is an accomplishment. Each moment has a meaning and you must use it. Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I’m finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden Jeanne Moreau
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort—and disappointment and perseverance.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Happy 112th Birthday to John Steinbeck, American writer and author of literature favorites like The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men! This photo of him comes from our Berg Collection located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
Step into one of our NYPL branches and check out a book on or about John Steinbeck.
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With Nico and Ennio Gualtieri, on the set of “La dolce vita”.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become
Jean- Paul Sartre
Happy Birthday! Jean- Paul Sartre was born today in Paris in 1905. He would go on to be one of the great existentialist thinkers whose works you can find at the Library.
David Guttenfelder. North Korean women perform in a mass synchronized swimming show in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the birthday of the late leader Kim Jong Il, who would have turned 70 on February 16, 2012.
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
More wise words from Dr. Seuss to mark his birthday. Check out Horton Hatches The Egg or any other Seuss book from NYPL in his honor (totally free, of course). Can’t get to the Library? Download a Seuss e-book or audio book from us! (via nypl)
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Happy Birthday
Loneliness, as described by a vintage snapshot. There's something about this that reminds me of the ending segments of 2001: A Space Odyssey...
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“This is the only photo of my second birthday. My parents for some reason thought it wouldn’t be traumatizing to me if my father dressed up in a homemade pooh costume and surprised me before cake.”
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Obligatory Studio Portrait of the Director, Toho, circa 1960
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