Nostalgia Avoidance Quotes

If a person's around me talking about '92, or 2005, I get away from them quickly. I don't want to be around anybody talking about the past.

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

I don't get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That's just not me. I don't get the thrill of doing that. So, I don't sit around listening to my old records.

There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don't want to see that.

I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.

Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.

I don't want to be one of these guys who sits in a room watching old footage of himself, reliving old glory. It's just not me. I want to create new adventures. I'm not trying to live vicariously through my own past.

I don't even want to go back to '81.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

I seldom look back.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.