Theme Quotes - Page 2

• There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Political, Middle East, Want

  "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.

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• Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.

  Garth Kravits

  New York, Team, Writing

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• I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

  Rory McIlroy

  Couple, Golf, Homework

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

  Mark Kozelek

  Home, House, Balance

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

  Mike Scheidt

  Dark, Vibes, Guilty

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Fire, Band

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with actor Mackenzie Cook, who is in it as well, and I didn't have my phone on me. The producer of the film handed me over this phone and said "someone is on the phone for you Gemma," and here I am completely in all of the scuba gear on with the tank on, and a helmet. My agent just went "dum, dum, dum, dum"(hums Bond theme song), and I just knew then, and I went ahhhh madness, and I was over the moon.

  Gemma Arterton

  Song, Ocean, Moon

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called this one "Lara's Theme" which is really cute. It's a bright orange which is really good for summer or cheering yourself up in winter.

  Lara Stone

  Cute, Summer, Song

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Digging A Hole, Embarrassment

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

  Tyler Perry

  Moving, Giving, Done

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Brother, Different

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• Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Use, Green

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Japan, Different

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

  Sam de Jong

  Growing Up, People, Confusing

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Zero, Thinking, People

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Years, Class

  "Coup De Main x AllTracks | Ladyhawke". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2016.

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• The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Math, June, July

  Source: www.slate.com

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• And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Simple, Thinking

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, People, Support

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

  J. K. Rowling

  Limits, My Family, Specifics

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

  James Iha

  Song, Memorable, Appreciate

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.

  Elle Fanning

  Growing Up, School, Typical

  "Interview: Elle Fanning, Nicolas Winding Refn on 'The Neon Demon'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 22, 2016.

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• The media theme was, "June is when you win the presidency," because that's what they thought Hillary [Clinton] was doing. Hillary was running ads condemning [Donald] Trump, characterizing Trump, marginalizing Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Winning, June

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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