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• When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Universal

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• The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

  James Dyson

  Sexy, Thinking, Media

  "James Dyson: Reinventing Britain". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, School, Born

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• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  E. M. Forster

  Growth, Literature, Destruction

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• As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Directors, Stories

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• I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Song, Humor

  "The Tonight Show", March 27, 2007.

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• Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

  Thomas Frank

  Media, Bias, Has Beens

  "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2008.

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• People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

  Mel Gibson

  Scary Stories, People, Fascination

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• My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

  Newt Gingrich

  Winning, Together We Can, President

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• The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

  Ryan Gosling

  Want, Kind, Capture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't say that The Fabric of the Cosmos is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Mean, Reality

  "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. February 8, 2005.

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• 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

  Matt Groening

  Memories, Tv Shows, Down And

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• People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

  Robert Griffin III

  Sports, People, Superhero

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• I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Clever, Writing

  "Riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna tells Miley Cyrus she wants to collaborate". www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

  Henry James

  Love, Writing, Literature

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11956, Delphi Classics

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• But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Age, Today

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• I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Shoes, Two, Blue

  "The Audacity of Minnesota: Senator Amy Klobuchar". Interview with Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. March 30, 2010.

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• It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Teeth, Red

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". Jewish World Review Column, www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

  Guy Laliberte

  Believe, Creativity, Discipline

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• Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Thinking, Down And

  "Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing". "All Things Considered" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 11, 2007.

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• The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Ideas, Doe

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• There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Keeping Secrets, Toxic

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• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Literature

  Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)

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