Martha Beck Quotes

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

All the records I keep are like friends I visit.

I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.

Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.

I'm incredibly sentimental, although I'm not one of those people who doesn't chuck anything out; I don't keep used tea bags - just special mementos.

I kept all of my tickets from the New Kids concerts and stuff - wristband, ticket, pass. Why? They are all in a drawer. I never look at it, but I still keep it. It sparks joy, that is why. It sparks joy. That is fine!

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.

I'll always hold Middlesbrough close to my heart. I'll always remember my time there.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

I think 2019 will always have a special place for fans.