Retrospect Quotes - Page 7

• When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Dying, Trying, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In retrospect, I think a lot of '80s fashion shoots are the ones that look the most modern. The fitness-based ones that are really minimal. It's clean, healthy, t-shirt, beach hair... it's athleisure.

  Christy Turlington

  Fashion, Beach, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.

  Kate Christensen

  Struggle, Cutting, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

  William A. Rusher

  War, Navy, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot say that there isn't a lot of knowledge that's been obtained in this field. In the same way, with these complex physical phenomena between solid state physics, you can say a lot of things without necessarily knowing the next step.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Knowing, Way, Fields

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  Winona Ryder

  Advice, Mermaid, Teens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Special, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

  Christopher Rice

  Alcohol, Wish, Generations

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• Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Mustache

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Winter, Dixie

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, World, Financial

  "Greenspan on the Economy: Double Ouch" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

  Arthur Koestler

  Emotional, Kind, Adolescence

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

  Max Eastman

  Emotional, Laughing, Chaos

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.342, Transaction Publishers

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• People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

  Paula Fox

  People, Consciousness, Stealing

  Paula Fox (2011). “The God of Nightmares”, p.79, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

  Samantha Power

  Volleyball, War, College

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• How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Long, Youth

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference.

  Tiger Woods

  Mother, Father, Golf

  "Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life". Book by Earl Woods, Pete McDaniel, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 1997.

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• Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Ice, President

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• In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

  Simon Jordan

  Regret, Fans, Calling

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• It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one.

  Karan Mahajan

  Jobs, Distance, Grateful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

  David E. Kelley

  Thinking, Extra Time, Able

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• Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

  Dave Mason

  People, Way, Looks

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• Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

  Howard Fineman

  Jobs, Odd One, Hearing

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• The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Song, Important, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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