Theme Quotes - Page 33

• Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.

  Edward Norton

  Careers, Directors, Pieces

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Challenges

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Running, Past, Choices

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Stories, States, Very Good

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.96, Macmillan

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• There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

  Buck Henry

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• I think everybody comes to the table with a different point of view and a different need...A lot of Beverly Lewis' material revolves around secrets and bringing those secrets to light. So, you know, there's always that theme, that...we're as sick as our secrets and once they're revealed we can be set free from them. So, that's definitely a theme that resonates.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Thinking, Light, Views

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Mean, Compassion, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

  Sara Cox

  Heart, Years, Sweat

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• What gets made that's considered for men - it's really just T&A stuff. It's not stuff than any guy I know really wants to watch, you know, the stuff with jiggling boobs and all that. Something with real sort of male themes and male strength and things I want to watch in a drama.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Real, Drama, Men

  Source: deadline.com

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• Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

  Arca

  Healing, Two, Anxiety

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

  Philip K. Dick

  Writing, Music Love, Preoccupation

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.129, Vintage

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• The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Thinking, Two, Hemisphere

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• I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.

  Spike Lee

  Running, Writing, Feelings

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• Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

  Michelangelo

  Spiritual, Religious, War

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• The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.

  Russell Kirk

  Art, Book, Taken

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• You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Ideas, Ordinary, Very Inspirational

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• Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

  Daniel Jacobs

  Mom, Party, Son

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• The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without any unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Jesus, Keys, Doctrine

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.763, Moody Publishers

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• I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

  Kurt Sutter

  Wise, Want, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you'd even die for them, is a great subject.

  Adrian Hodges

  Thinking, Looks, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Names, People, Mustache

  Source: collider.com

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• I think what's fun of making a Transformers movie is that it gets to be all of the above. I think, thematically, this movie is ... because of the third movie, you can ask questions in this movie you couldn't ask in the previous films. Like I was referring to the fact that they were abandoned by humans in the previous film; their attitude is different, so we've been able to tackle different themes.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Fun, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that Stars records have themes, I think what they mean is we write songs - or try to write songs - that are timeless. We try to write songs that catch you at the right time in your life, and that you can hold on to. We write kitchen sink songs. If you're doing the dishes or you're driving to your mom's funeral, or if you're getting over having done MDMA and you feel sad, you can listen to Stars because we're not going to demand of you that you be cool.

  Torquil Campbell

  Mom, Song, Stars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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