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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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• In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.

  Janet Burroway

  Sex, Writing, Interesting

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier and more complex than what you could come up with on your own. Find them with your marking pens as they emerge in your drafts. Become a student of your work in progress. Look for what your material is telling you about your material. Every aspect of a story has its own story.

  Lucy Corin

  Ideas, Progress, Looks

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• Pay attention to your visual themes.

  Andrew Mayne

  Attention, Pay, Visuals

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• One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

  Debbie Gibson

  Song, Unconditional Love, Albums

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• I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mean, Discovery, Ideas

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• Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

  Nick Mancuso

  Fame, Minutes, Our Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

  Andrew McMahon

  Writing, Who I Am, Play

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• As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Different, Actors, Genre

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• I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

  David Maraniss

  Book, Two, Looks

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• The most self-destructive thought that any person can have  is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

  Roger Dawson

  Song, Thinking, Self

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Teaching, Virtue, Poet

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• View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

  Anne Tyler

  Views, Burden, Accepting

  Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”

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• I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.

  Robert Indiana

  Spiritual, Hippie, Thinking

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• In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

  Dwayne Hickman

  Sex, Fun, Party

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• With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Sex, Philosophical, Men

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• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Loss, Years

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• Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

  Norman Lamm

  Important, Study, Judaism

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Song, Believe

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• The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

  Herrick Johnson

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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