Theme Quotes - Page 6

• They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

  John O'Hara

  Men, Young Writers, Novel

  John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

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• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Confusion

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• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  Gary Oldman

  Courage, Compassion, Justice

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

  Yoko Ono

  Running, Country, Culture

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Paint, Hundred

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

  Josh Radnor

  Writing, Moments, Term

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

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• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Quran, Muhammad, Prophet

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• The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

  Keanu Reeves

  Beautiful, Thinking, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, World

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• Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Character

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• My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

  Nicole Richie

  Jobs, Creating, Sketching

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• If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

  John Ritter

  Song, Three, Disease

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• Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

  Tom Robbins

  Transformation, Celebration, Liberation

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• If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

  Richard Russo

  Class, Endure, Working It

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• It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

  Winona Ryder

  Sad, Cynical, Junk

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• It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

  Martin Scorsese

  Interesting, Political, Corruption

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Book, Quests

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• 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

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Filmmaker

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• In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Tragedy, Stories

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  Radhanath Swami

  Song, Lying, Book

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Journey, Rocks

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• 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

  Hours, Miles, Found

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• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Len Wein

  Differences, Important, Lenses

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• I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Thinking, Mature, Deals

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