Smart Talking Diane Keaton

This week I attended the last of this year's Smart Talk events in Minneapolis.

The speaker for this go around was Diane Keaton.

When Ms. Keaton stepped out on stage, a wild noise of applause filled the air. The audience was thrilled to see Ms. Keaton herself, but I think most of the joy was over her skirt -- a flouncy, bouncy, chic and totally glamorous white and black polka-dot print.

She told us in the course of the night that she'd gotten the skirt for free as part of her work on a L'Oreal campaign. It was Dolce & Gabbana.

Ms. Keaton talked on several subjects. Yet she always seemed to come back around to memory and how important it is for her, and for all of us really, to document our personal lives in whatever medium fits us best -- home movies, photo albums, scrap books, journals, etc.

In the course of her talk, these were some of the things she said that stuck out at me:

"Vibrancy has to do with being curious, not youth."

"Perfection is the death of creativity."

"A memory is when your heart takes a picture."

Photo courtesy of Smart Talk.