Theme Quotes - Page 37

• We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

  Jean Houston

  Betrayal, Stories, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Writing, Able

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• I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.

  Dylan Moran

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Character, Judging, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ocean, Character, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

  Scott Adams

  Jobs, Dilbert, Downsizing

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• I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Light, Focus

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• I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Variation, Dangerous

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• I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

  Dario Argento

  Years, Long, Style

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• If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared.

  David Axelrod

  Running, Issues, Romance

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• There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

  Erykah Badu

  Memories, Musical, Atoms

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• Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

  Alan Ball

  Fascinated

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• I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Drama, Book, Character

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• If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Ideas, Surface

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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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• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

  Johannes Brahms

  Real, Harmony, Used

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• The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

  Jo Brand

  Dancer, Comedian, Sticks

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• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

  Dave Brubeck

  Symphony, Want, Pieces

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• My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Half, Frustrating

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• The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Ideas, Interesting

  "Francis Ford Coppola: The Rt Interview". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 15, 2010.

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• My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

  Billy Corgan

  Mother, Years, Four

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• It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

  William Cowper

  Blood, Rude, Chill

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• It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Men, People

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Law

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Needs, Dollars

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