Quotes About Nostalgia

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

I was one of the ones in my generation who actually did connect with 'The Wiz,' even though it was not on Broadway or the movie wasn't big anymore by the time I was of age to notice. But I was into it in middle school.

When I go back to see some mates and go back to watch my old teams, you just notice how far you've come, and that's when you really cherish it that bit more.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.

I've always said that the games in November are the ones you remember.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

Back then, when I was a kid, I watched Vince Carter every now and then.

I used to love doing the runway shows when I was a model and I miss that sometimes now. But it's great to go back to it every now and then as 'showstopper.'

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.

The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music - its what's what we know. We actually talked about this because nowadays, with iTunes and everything, there's a lot of pressure to get this track and that track, whatever.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.