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“I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.”

Trying Firsts Home School Remember Water Practice Television High School Cool Things Blown Away Happy Day Polo Water Polo

Author:Ted McGinley

“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”

Thinking Trying Remember Mother Found Sick Journal

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.”

Men Trying Said Remember

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.”

Thinking World Trying Children Remember Wonder Abuse Child Abuse Sexually Abused Children

Author:Robin Quivers

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”

Trying Past Remember Lost Ideals Stopping Refrain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.”

Trying Kind Kids Remember Sound Wonder Who I Am Emulate Soulful

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I’m a bit of a goofball; I don’t have a lot of censors and I don’t have a lot boundaries and I’m trying to remember that the world is watching.”

World Trying Remember Bits Boundaries

Author:Ty Olsson

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

Giving Trying Art I Can Remember Artist Felt Difficult Fascination Yeats

Author:Lucian Freud

“I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.”

Knows Want Trying Sometimes Stories Use Seems Remember Songwriting Narrators

Author:Ryan Adams

“When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.”

Thinking Trying Remember Stupidity Envy Cruelty Frustration

Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.”

Men Trying Firsts Made Different Together Remember Spirituality House Felt Understanding Sides Records Heard Musician Incredibles Supreme Transition Remember When Coltrane

Author:Maurice White

“Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.”

Ifs Men Trying Body Remember Forget Your Body Every Man

Book:Lark and Termite

Source: Lark and Termite