Theme Quotes - Page 23

• Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Variation, Jazz, Endless

  "Richard Holbrooke: A Consummate Insider Who Left Us Wanting More" by Stephen Kinzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2010.

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• But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

  Brian Selznick

  Moving, Thinking, Tunnels

  "Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

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• The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

  Queen Latifah

  Perspective, Different, Good Things

  "Queen Latifah Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Fall, Space, Hands

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

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• The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Tolerance, Humanity, Desire

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Book, Comedy, Comic

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• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Superhero, Leader

  "Ex Machina : An Interview With Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Bryan Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

  Sara Shepard

  Thinking, Interesting, Secret

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• The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Men, Darkness

  "Nikos Kazantzakis" by Helen Kazantzakis, (p. 507), 1968.

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• I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

  Regina Brett

  Book, Giving, Overcoming

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• Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

  George Lucas

  Art, Light, Moments

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 9 Jun.

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• I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Son, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

  Abi Morgan

  Thinking, Ideas, Theatre

  Source: collider.com

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• We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Issues, Everyday

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• But conversation, choose what theme we may,
  And chiefly when religion leads the way,
  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
  Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

  William Cowper

  Summer, Water, May

  William Cowper, “Conversation”

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• My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

  Henri Matisse

  Figures, Extras, Models

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• My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

  Tennessee Williams

  Loneliness, Writing, Night

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.99, New Directions Publishing

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• Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Ambition, Imagination

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Fall, Perfection, Democracy

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• It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

  Tom Daley

  Training, Parks, Session

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• Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad -- a foreign policy with alliances.

  Bill Richardson

  Strong, Home, Mean

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