Quotes and Sayings About Theme
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Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
-- Alberto Moravia -
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
-- Andrea Arnold -
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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 -
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
-- Brooke Shields -
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
-- Catherine McCormackSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
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I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
-- Dani Shapiro -
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
-- Dannie AbseSource : 1984 Journa lentry,Feb,collected in Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986).
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I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.
-- Danny Elfman -
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
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 -
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
-- David Guterson -
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
-- Elvis Costello -
If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.
-- Emanuel Steward -
Themes recur again and again in my work.
-- Eve ArnoldSource : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
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You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
-- Eve Bunting -
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Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
-- George Duke -
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
-- Harold E. Varmus -
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
-- Hilary Mantel -
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
-- Horace Walpole -
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
-- J. V. Cunningham -
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
-- James H. ConeSource : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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