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• I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

  Philippe Dauman

  Looks, Hypothesis, Shows

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• When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Book, People, Fake

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Land

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

  Sarah Silverman

  Cutting, People, Helping

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Portraits, Assuming, Film

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

  Donalyn Miller

  Reading, Writing, Choices

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Voice, Guy, Offensive

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• In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

  Lynda Barry

  Hate, Swear To God, Intestines

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• Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Reality, America

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Two, Special

  "Q&A: Bill Gates: Lessons Learned". Interview with Ina Fried, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

  Ben Parr

  Real, Space, Talking

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• I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on the site. It's nice when people have a forum to discuss things among themselves. If you had a certain special-occasion blog I could probably contribute...I normally post on my site if I'm writing about music, and if you have a specific issue you're addressing or you want me to write about certain topics, then I'd be happy to try.

  Hilary Hahn

  Nice, Writing, Issues

  "Violinist.com interview with Hilary Hahn". Interview with Laurie Niles, www.violinist.com. October 22, 2007.

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• I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

  Questlove

  Issues, Self, Voice

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• Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

  Gary Paulsen

  Zero, Stories, Interest

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

  Anne Burrell

  Hair, Bigs

  "Anne Burrell Cooks In Chicago". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. June 28, 2015.

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• In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge whatever you like with music and people will listen.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Light, Voice

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that would be used and how direct we wanted to be.

  Jordan Rudess

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Race, Self

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• Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

  Kate Burridge

  Deceiving, Used, Disguise

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• This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Want, Masturbation

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• There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loss, People, Secret

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.180, U of Nebraska Press

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• ...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Philosopher, Boring, Seems

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