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• I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore.

  Billy Boyd

  Country, School, Evil

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• Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

  Atom Egoyan

  Issues, Way, Concerned

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Struggle, Book

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• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

  Michel Legrand

  Thinking, Ghouls, Needs

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• Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

  Gerald C. Meyers

  Motivational, Night, Self Improvement

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• But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

  David Brin

  Honest, Biology, Surveys

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• One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

  Debbie Gibson

  Song, Unconditional Love, Albums

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• I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mean, Discovery, Ideas

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• Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

  Nick Mancuso

  Fame, Minutes, Our Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

  Andrew McMahon

  Writing, Who I Am, Play

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• As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Different, Actors, Genre

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• I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

  David Maraniss

  Book, Two, Looks

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• The most self-destructive thought that any person can have  is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

  Roger Dawson

  Song, Thinking, Self

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Teaching, Virtue, Poet

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• View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

  Anne Tyler

  Views, Burden, Accepting

  Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”

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• I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.

  Robert Indiana

  Spiritual, Hippie, Thinking

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• In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

  Dwayne Hickman

  Sex, Fun, Party

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• With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Sex, Philosophical, Men

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• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Loss, Years

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• Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

  Norman Lamm

  Important, Study, Judaism

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Song, Believe

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• The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

  Herrick Johnson

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

  Trevor Rabin

  Dark, Over You, Might

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Perfectly Good, Upset, Touching

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.

  Walter Isaacson

  Simple, Digital

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