Theme Quotes - Page 12

• I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

  Alex Winter

  Ideas, Driven, Certain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

  John DiMaggio

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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

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• I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

  Brad Dourif

  Moving, Character, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.

  Colin Stetson

  Talking, Balance, Albums

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• If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

  Ward Connerly

  College, America, Race

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• There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Powerful, Life Changing, Heart

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• It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

  Rick Rubin

  Progress, Life Learning, Better Person

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Couple, Feelings, Directors

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

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• The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

  John Astin

  Appreciate, Long, Age

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

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• Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Devil, Usual

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• All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Variation, Particular

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Frustrating

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• Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Names, Interesting, Political

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• Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Childhood, Concern

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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

  Book, Needs, Novel

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• Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

  Sidney Lumet

  Style, Determine

  Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.10, Vintage

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• Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Character, Apology, Grace

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• Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Modern, Figures

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• The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Answers, World

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• My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

  Dr. An Wang

  Technology, Needs, Philanthropy

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• Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

  Marc Edwards

  Focus, Different, Records

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• In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reading, Successful

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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