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• Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

  Garrison Keillor

  Art, Bravery, And Love

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sobriety, Dawn, Vices

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• That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Brain, Needs

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• We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

  Michael Huffington

  Art, Church Service, Long

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

  Anne Sweeney

  Song, Attention, Pay

  "MIPCOM's Personality of the Year: Anne Sweeney Addresses TV's Digital Age, Lessons Learned (Q&A)". Interview with Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Use, Tissues

  "Filmmaker Interview". POV Interview, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

  Robert De Niro

  Dark, Stories, Helping

  The Family Press Conference, www.blackfilm.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.

  J. J. Abrams

  Loyalty, Character, Vacuums

  "J.J. Abrams talks STAR TREK 2, FRINGE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 and More!". Interview, collider.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Memories, Revenge, Paranoia

  "Comic-Con 2011: Jonathan Nolan, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Taraji P. Henson Talk PERSON OF INTEREST & the Creepiness of Modern Surveillance". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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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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• I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

  George Nolfi

  Thinking, Order, People

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Love Is, Childhood

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

  Marc Maron

  Ongoing, Conversation, Jokes

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

  Michael Light

  Ocean, Sublime, West

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Pride, Games, Roles

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Issues, Race

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

  Joe Rogan

  Ideas, Long, Consciousness

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• My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

  Holly Golightly

  Children, Adults, Firsts

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

  Sanna Lenken

  Drug, Abuse, Eating Disorder

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Fiction, Metaphor

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• Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Strong, Book

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thoughtful, Wife

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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