“I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.”
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“Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.”
“I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.”
“I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.”
“Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.'”
“I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.”
“I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.”
“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”
“I am all the ages I've ever been.”
“When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.”
“I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.”
“In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.”
“My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.”
“Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.”
“My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.”
“The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.”
“I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.”
“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”
“That time and those people are upon you!”
“it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”