Quotes About Nostalgia

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.

Every time I return here, I always have fond memories of my time with Fiorentina.

I drive an old Camaro that I got when I was 16. And I've been known to do stupid things with my time, like Friendster.

I'm a MySpace person.

I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such a mythical thing!

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

We were naive in a lot of ways, but that was part of the charm. We were very young.

I really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.