Reliving the Past Quotes

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

If I had to return to Valencia, I would not rule that out.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

I will repeat history over and over. I'm one of those girls where I would just rather beat it into the ground than go through the rest of my life wondering how it would have worked out.

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.