Flashback Quotes

• The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Giving, Stories, Answers

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

  Emma Thompson

  Two, Switching, Parallels

  "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

  Sergio Leone

  Dream, Imagination, Function

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• I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Unity, Want, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

  Steven Wright

  Insightful, Kind, Hindsight

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• We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Summer, Eye

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• I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

  Jill Soloway

  People, Narrative, Ifs

  "‘Transparent’ creator: Streaming shows are ‘inventing a new art form’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  Dale Archer

  Stress, Mind, Let It Go

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• Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Unanswered Questions

  Song: We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, Album: One Particular Harbour, 1983

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• The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Optimistic, Color, Yellow

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• I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  David Henry

  Stars, Food, Heart

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• I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.

  John Lennon

  Real, Sitting, Joints

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 180), 2000.

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• Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever and always.

  Taylor Swift

  Baby, Believe, Eye

  "Forever and Always". Song by Taylor Swift, 2008.

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• Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Mean, Simple

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• We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

  Jenji Kohan

  Order, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Differences, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.

  Giles Duley

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

  Ron Rash

  Decision, Stories, Dozen

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• I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

  Sonia Braga

  Kids, Two, Childhood

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

  David Mitchell

  Editors, Chaos, Theory

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.155, Random House Group

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• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  John Cusack

  Real, Flip, Nightmare

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• Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.

  Lauren Oliver

  Friday, Dad, Party

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• After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

  Stephen King

  New York, Echoes, Cities

  "Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King". Interview With Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. November 15, 2007.

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• On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Years, Dancing

  "Alan Rickman Says Goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K.Rowling" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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