- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Quotes
What stays with us, in the words of those who lived it.
These quotes revolve around memory in different forms: the fading magic of a childhood holiday, the messy notes an idea leaves behind, and a specific recollection tied to a major public demonstration decades ago. For more reflections on time passing and looking back, see Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my writing takes place at a cramped desk in a cramped apartment, so whenever I get to write on a train or make notes on a road trip, it has an entirely different cadence. And I can remember specific writing sessions while on a train through beautiful countryside in a way I can remember almost nothing else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.'
- Backdrop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I love Hindi films, I don't remember any backdrop visuals that are really striking.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020