Quotes About Nostalgia

I remember being obsessed with 'The Score' by The Fugees. I used to listen to a lot of really melodic music with a lot of harmonies. The Beach Boys used to make me happy, and Simon and Garfunkel, and I used to listen to a lot of film soundtracks as well.

I feel so proud of everything I have achieved and it is lovely that my soundtracks take people back to their first love or holiday.

I think that purists may regard the '80s and Jerry Goldsmith being the quintessential example of film scoring, but that was also a very prominent type during a time when soundtracks were purely songs, and there was very little score.

We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.

My grandma's chicken soup is amazing: so simple, so full of flavour, and so yummy.

I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.

'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.

I was an avid 'Chitrahaar' and 'Superhit Muqqabala' watcher. We did not have cable TV for a long time, so that was my only source of entertainment growing up. My great fantasy was to be in 'Chitrahaar!'

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie... I missed the South since I've been gone!

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed with a cheap mayonnaise thing with bits in it of - I suppose - pickled cucumber. I absolutely loved them.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.