Quotes About Nostalgia

I don't think one can recreate the magic of old films.

We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.

I have grown up watching films in single screens where people would get up and dance in the aisles. With 'Rowdy Rathore,' I want to recreate the same magic.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

I can never recreate the magic that 'Indian' did in the '90s.

My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some ways, I imagine I'm returning the favour.

Mark my words, 'Aashiqui' will be a tough act to follow. It will be very difficult to recreate that magic.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolside or at their home, they always wore a matte red lipstick with practically no foundation - it was how they wore makeup in real life.

I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore.

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

I reference playgrounds a lot because I was always playing on them when I was little.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.