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“If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff”

Ifs Helping Stuff Memories Forget Crew Good Memories Bad Stuff

Author:Geoff Dyer

“I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Kids Mother Choices Easy Stuff Memories Paid Horrible Straws Anything And Everything

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”

Made Soul Moments Past Stuff Process Memories Becoming

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.”

Thinking Kids Past Stuff Memories Race Eras Hitting Chill

Author:Matt Skiba

“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”

Made Stuff Memories Attention Genius

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.”

Mean Stills Different Song Stuff Memories Fans This Day Favorite Song

Author:Martin Lawrence

“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.”

People Sometimes Remember Turns Stuff Memories Happened Scene Details

Author:Rick Moody

“Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels I Can Different Enough Character Happens Stuff Memories Borders Latter Inventing Plausible

Author:William T. Vollmann

“My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.”

“Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.”

People Humans Stills Important Running Remember Stuff Memories Numbers Happened Computer Perception Affected Software Procedures Our Memories Literal Adaptive

Author:Bill Nye

“In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.”

“You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't remember the real memories anymore, you just remember the film versions of them. And then if the film failed you have distaste for them. So I don't think about that stuff anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Real Remember Film Stuff Memories Projects Finished Versions Distaste

Author:Guy Maddin

“The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.”

Thinking Writing Hard Form Stuff Memories Traditional Exploring Essays Sensory Killing Yourself

Author:Kiese Laymon

“I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.”

Want Writing Moments Wanted Given Stuff Memories Dark Painful Capture Painful Memories Getting Along

Author:Kate Christensen

“Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.”

Happens Wanted Fun Stuff Memories Instruments Psychedelic Stuff Happens

Author:Alan Palomo

“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.”

People Ifs Way Persons Play Whole Law Fun Stuff Sound Memories Records Becoming Mess Composer Transformed Layers Conductor Copyright Collages Copyright Law

Author:DJ Spooky

“The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.”

Feels Should Trying Mind Firsts Past Stuff Memories Focus One Thing Figures Judgment Criticism Machines Busy Stores Impression Tension Holding On Stressed Grudge Intricate One Thing At A Time

Author:MC Yogi