Quotes About Nostalgia

You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.

The original 'Tum Bin' was one of my favourite films whether you talk about the film or the music.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

I'm originally from New York, and I just have a love affair with that place.

I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

Orlando is my history.

I grew up in Orlando.

I think I'll always be homesick. Even though Orlando is amazing and the sun's always out, I'll always miss Birmingham. I don't know what it is.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.

For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me.

Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?

When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.

I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.

I had a lot of Pokemon Pikachu t-shirts on court and hand-me-downs from other kids.