Nostalgia Quotes - Page 15

• Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Memories, Paris, Should

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• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

  El-P

  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

  Serge Schmemann

  Blue, Circles, Leader

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• Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.

  Larissa Sansour

  Past, Remember, Science Fiction

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• When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Cynical, Challenges

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Memories, Yaks, Wilson

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• The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.

  Ian MacKaye

  Unique, Pieces, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think there's kind of a wave of nostalgia going on right at the moment. You know, people recall an earlier time, which they see as a better time. And I think we just kind of evoke good thoughts when they look at us. That's the feeling I get.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

  Hank Stuever

  Watches, Zone

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 24, 2015.

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• The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Age, Chance

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Balance

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• I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Moving, Commitment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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• The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Past, Skins, Generations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.

  Michelle Gomez

  Home, Remember, Antidote

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

  Britta Phillips

  Song, Feelings

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Rocks, Enemy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

  Lauren Groff

  School, Talking, People

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Degrees, Kind, Coming Back

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

  Emmy Rossum

  Glamorous

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.

  Guy Maddin

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.

  Ellie Goulding

  Meaningful, Song, Stage

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• I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Past, Thinking, Old Days

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Creating, Important

  "Joss Whedon Talks the Imperfections of THE AVENGERS, His Plans for THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, and AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D." by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. September 26, 2013.

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