"Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know what kids dress like and speak like, and I still hang out with them. It's just the nature of my day job. I am a freak of nature that has to understand them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.”

Source : "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.
“Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable Â— and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.”
“[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!”
“Because America is such a big country, I can understand that if you don't travel you don't really understand what is going on. I get it. I tell myself I know all about America, but I don't; I know L.A. and New York.”
“What you do today creates every tomorrow.”
“Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.”

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