Nostalgic Quotes - Page 8

• I'm very nostalgic, and I spend a lot of time in the past, in my mind. That's part of my challenge, and what I really want to do is, I want to be present. I want to leave that in the past. When I say nostalgic, I mean my own life. I spend a lot of time reflecting on my past and not being able to process time.

  Diane Birch

  Mean, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Football, Children, Phones

  "Is Your Computer Also Your Best Friend?". The Chestertown Spy Interview, chestertownspy.org. January 29, 2011.

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• I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

  Lisa Loeb

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

  David Bailey

  Hate, I Hate, Sixty

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• For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

  Alber Elbaz

  Names, Stories, Brands

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• Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

  Craig Finn

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

  John Zorn

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  "'Masada Songbook': Zorn Redefines Jewish Music". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. November 13, 2005.

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• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  Zadie Smith

  Ideas, Worry, Irrational

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• I'm not really a nostalgic person.

  Patti Smith

  Persons

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Shining, Littles

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• Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

  Jason Reitman

  School, Past, People

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

  Craig Kilborn

  Bills, Clinton, Bigs

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• I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

  Christian Lacroix

  Past

  "Christian Lacroix: 'I am not nostalgic for the past'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• I think this kind of bohemianism doesn't really exist in the New York city anymore - the bohemianism that I was trying to record in Carnegie Hall that completely defined our culture. The people who lived and worked in Carnegie Hall studios, they defined our culture in music, dance, theater, fashion, illustration. It wasn't so much nostalgic as a celebration of that and an acknowledgment of that and saying that it's really important. And it's actually something that is a loss for the city, I think.

  Richard Press

  Fashion, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Fate, Blue

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• All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

  Annie E. Clark

  Art, Technology, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

  Michelle Gomez

  Distance, Firsts, Remember

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

  Colin Greenwood

  Way, Should, Approach

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Persons

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

  Ruskin Bond

  Men, Listening, Opera

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

  Dov Davidoff

  Loneliness, People, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 02, 2012

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• A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Years, People

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• If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

  Thomas Struth

  Ideas, Trying, Looks

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• There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fiction, Periods

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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