Looking Back Quotes - Page 17

• Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Kids, Thinking, Candid

  "The Very Bright Future of Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss" by Willa Paskin, www.vulture.com. March 9, 2014.

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• My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.

  David Bowie

  Taken, Thinking, Design

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• I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

  Tom Odell

  Mistake, Thinking, Helpful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I mean the reason that I started writing close to home, "Santa Fe," et cetera, was a kind of looking back on past events. I don't know, it's just some of the dark spaces I've been. And it feels like with a music career and whatnot, I've been able to crawl out of those places. So it's interesting to look back on them and try to hold on to the feeling of what you went through.

  Zach Condon

  Mean, Home, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you talk to astronauts, the most profound thing when you finally go into space is the view - looking back at the planet - so I absolutely know for sure that that's going to change my perspective on our planet, and it's going to change my perspective on life, I think.

  Jeremy Hansen

  Thinking, Profound, Perspective

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.

  Edward Sorel

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T" is kind of the juxtaposition of all the many, many, many truths that seem true to people at the time.

  George Saunders

  People, Historical, Kind

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it.

  Michaela Coel

  Sweet, Black And White, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Looking back six years ago when I had just come from 'The Office' to 'The Mindy Project' and what I was trying to say back then. I feel like we don't revisit our younger idealistic selves, you just get in this pattern of churning these episodes out. Now I was like, "Let's try and get in my mind back then," because my life personally has changed so much, too. I just thought, "What was I trying to say? And now can I make it look like it was all part of one larger story."

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Trying, Changed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think that with albums these days, as long as you are moving forward and not trying to re-create things and looking back, albums are like living breathing things. They change, they evolve and it's this big thing that you are trying to get out to people. To me, whatever you can do to get it out there, do that.

  Graham Colton

  Moving, Thinking, Long

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because everyone looks so ridiculous. Even the Nineties, with The Stone Roses and other bands, was cool before the Eighties. It really missed the boat! The Sixties was always cool, even then. That was my Dad's era and I was always jealous of that. But now, as an adult, looking back, we were part of this mental time. It was the most enormous amount of tribes that could have ever existed in one place.

  Shane Meadows

  Jealous, Thinking, Rose

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Looking back on my whole experience, the biggest takeaway was just being proud of what you do, and knowing that it's okay to do your best even if it's not the best. That's sort of the theme. I mean, obviously I'm not the best singer, obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

  Tobias Jesso Jr.

  Fall, Mean, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

  Crystal Renn

  Lawyer, Astronomy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I got older I became more of an urban person. That's really when I started to become more of a creative person who was interested in fine arts, painting, drawing, and music. I studied jazz for a long time. Looking back, all those things were great training.

  Reed Krakoff

  Country, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

  Woody Allen

  Wish, Done, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Years, Church

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• There have been so many times where I thought I put on enough sunscreen but actually didn't. As a result, I'd get unbelievable tan lines. Of course in Florida it was expected, but now looking back at pictures, I think I spent an entire summer at the beach with my friends looking like a tomato. A bright shade of red.

  Brittany Snow

  Summer, Beach, Thinking

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, People, Insane

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

  Brendon Urie

  Mp3, Cds, Listening

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

  Feist

  Style, Origami, Assuming

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Book, Love You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

  Zoe Kazan

  Girl, Character, Judging

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.

  Shane Bunting

  Wall, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.

  Laura Sydell

  Years, Government, Looks

  "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.

  Rod Stryker

  Heart, Light, Treasure

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