Thematic Quotes - Page 2

• One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

  Greg Graffin

  Human Nature, Tradition, Humans

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• However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

  David Bowie

  Running, Song, Strong

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interveiw, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Trying, Important

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• Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Eye, Exercise, Issues

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• The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

  Stanley Fish

  Development, Firsts, Looking Forward

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

  Forest Whitaker

  Healing, Humanity, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Secret, Needs

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• The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Thinking, Long, Humanity

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.

  Graham Phillips

  People, Film, Wide

  Source: collider.com

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• The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Sports, Baseball, Play

  "After 12 Years in 'Exile' Tharp Shifts Gears Again; A Pioneer of Choreographic Collisions Introduces a New Troupe and New Thinking" by Anna Kisselgoff, www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2000.

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• Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crafts, Serious, Conflict

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• I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

  Noah Hawley

  Character, Giving, People

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

  William Monahan

  Stars, War, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.

  Lucy Corin

  Wall, Writing, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.

  Vera Nazarian

  Writing, Character, Loss

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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