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Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
I remember my first Champions League final in 1996: Juventus-Ajax. That's the clearest memory from my childhood.
If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.
I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.
My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.
I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.