Quotes About Memory

I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.

I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

Ricky Gervais, met him a couple times. He wouldn't remember it.

What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.

It is nice to go down the memory lane and remember who I am and what my roots are.

One should live with history round one.

Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.

We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and in the long wars since.

The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.