“My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.”
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“Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves.”
“We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008.”
“What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.”
“In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.”
“I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the book had a lot of resonance. It was a well written book. I was honored to play a part in that movie version.”
“I still think of myself really as a New Yorker”
“I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.”
“Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.”
“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”
“I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”
“When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.”
“I go back so far I'm in front of me.”
“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.”
“I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.”
“It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.”
“I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.”
“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.”
“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”
“When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.”