Theme Quotes - Page 5

• Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months all of a sudden. What would you put in your suitcase? What are the twenty essential pieces that you will need and how would you design it to be cool, and you'll want to wear it?

  Christophe Lemaire

  Views, Two, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The people are phenomenal. You know my theme is 'Make America Great Again' and I think it can be greater than ever before. But if we have four years of Hillary (Clinton), I don't know if we can ever come back.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America, Years

  Source: townhall.com

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• I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

  Helen Fielding

  Ties, Diaries, Might

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

  Liza Campbell

  Selfish, Character, People

  Source: newwest.net

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• The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Dog, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Happens, Nothing New

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Magic, Events, Daily Life

  Source: observer.com

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• Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Writing, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: girdblog.com

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• This year's [2016] White House holiday theme is "The Gift of the Holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Life Changing, Holiday

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.

  Billy Eichner

  Party, Want, Mitzvah

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Interesting, Looks, Horror

  Source: dailydead.com

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• A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.

  George Michael

  Song, Sex, Dirty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

  Johnny Cash

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: wrvo.org

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• As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Recognition, Importance, Consent

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mistake, Winning, Rallying Cry

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.

  Steve Vai

  School, Past, Guitar

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not.

  Morgan Parker

  Writing, Artist, Long

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• Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

  Bill Gates

  Talking, Vaccines, Innovation

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

  Peter James

  Ideas, Bigs, Novel

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

  Hilary Mantel

  Memories, Human Condition, Humans

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• They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

  John O'Hara

  Men, Young Writers, Novel

  John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

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• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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• Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ocean, Character, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

  Bill Bryson

  Sorry, Mean, Shopping

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.232, VNR AG

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