Thematic Quotes

• My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Memories, Inspiration, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was trying to make the voices more active, more energetic.

  George Saunders

  Book, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to. For many years I carried cameras wherever I went. Photograph whatever I saw that was of interest. In the last years, I've only used cameras to explore thematic ideas which presented themselves first. And then bring out the cameras to try to explore that idea.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Ideas, Years

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

  David Shields

  Mosaics, Momentum, Narrative

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• I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

  Stephen King

  Intention

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

  Stephen King

  Degrees, Stories, Way

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion: I find him a little uninteresting and cold, sometimes. Also, at first, the thematic material is not of a kind that makes the greatest appeal, but if you keep with Medtner, I think he will take hold of you, and you're very likely to become a fan.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Thinking, Fans, Littles

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• I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

  Gerard Cox

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm still trying to figure out what to do with. I mean, when it comes to the themes, this is nothing like an Atwood novel.

  Edan Lepucki

  Mean, California, Safety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that they are agents of change to some degree. In other words, the lens is focused deeply and intensely on the female characters and doesn't waver, which allows for a glimpse into the rich inner lives of the characters.

  Laurie Foos

  Book, Character, Feminism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that doesn't necessarily have thematic material in it to make the points when there is thematic material even stronger. It's cool to be able to combine old and new.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Trying, Stronger, Old And New

  Source: collider.com

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• Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Interesting, Political

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• I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

  Damon Lindelof

  Real, Thinking, Order

  "How to end it all". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2013.

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• The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

  Norman Spinrad

  Psychological, Given, Novel

  Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

  Vera Farmiga

  Careers, Choices, Heroism

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Men, Tolerance, Shy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.

  Paul Kengor

  Profound, Interesting, President

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

  Gene Wolfe

  Doubt, Stories, Closure

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• I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Eye, Two

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• The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  War, Cities, Weather

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

  Scott Rudin

  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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• The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Sports, Baseball, Play

  "After 12 Years in 'Exile' Tharp Shifts Gears Again; A Pioneer of Choreographic Collisions Introduces a New Troupe and New Thinking" by Anna Kisselgoff, www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2000.

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• I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

  Forest Whitaker

  Healing, Humanity, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Secret, Needs

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