- Dead
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As You Like It.' I used to think I would die if I could play that. But then I started doing movies, and I had children, and I moved to Los Angeles. And now I kind of can't remember what those roles would be.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to friends' houses and being fascinated when they got into fights with their siblings.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020