Cynthia Payne Quotes

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I look at the past and I see myself.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I learned from my past.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.