Formative Moments Quotes

I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.

I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

So often, over the course of our day-to-days, we forget the details of what shapes us most in life. Sure, we'll pay through the nose to have our weddings videotaped, but can we say the same thing about the first time we discovered masturbation, or the moment we realized that the true nature of the opposite sex is to lie and humiliate (and I'm not just talking about women here)? Usually not.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.