“A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.” PersonsBookMomentsParticularMemoirThemeThreadAutobiography Author:Richard Hell
“Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.” WantedYoungGirlFashionStyleThemeValleysIconsInfamousFashion IconValley Girl Author:Bethany Cosentino
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.” PeopleWellsImpossibleMissionsThemeRemixMission Impossible Author:DJ Shadow
“When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though that stuff was cool - creepy comics and monsters and horrific stuff. Music lends itself to that whole theme.” WholeKidsStuffParentWatchesMonstersThemeCreepyHorrificProjectors Author:Chris Reifert
“There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.” WantPoliticalMiddleEastPracticalsManagersThemeConsiderationMiddle East Author:Jeffrey Goldberg
“Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.” WritingTwoLastsFilmFacesHoursCommonTeamNew YorkCompetitionInternationalWinnerThemeSubmitFilmmakingFestivalsAsianJulyEditsLabsAsian AmericanAmerican FilmFilm FestivalsHide And Seek Author:Garth Kravits
“I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.” CoupleGolfEvolveThemeHomeworkPlaying Golf Author:Rory McIlroy
“Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.” TryingHas BeensHomeHouseRecordsBalanceRedPainterThemeHome LifeRoad Life Author:Mark Kozelek
“I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.” WritingLongArtStillsBookTogetherLostSawsWrittenLoversHorrorPaperPagesLong TimeGuidesTalesThemeThreadLong Time AgoManuscriptsClipGuide MeArt LoversPaper Clips Author:Laura Mullen
“I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.” DarkPleasureDarknessAwarenessFindingsGuiltyThemeTranscendingVibesGuilty Pleasure Author:Mike Scheidt
“Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.” ThinkingBigsCoursesFireParticularBandLogicFollowingTendenciesThemeParadesFollow ThroughArcadesArcade Fire Author:Dan Bejar
“I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with actor Mackenzie Cook, who is in it as well, and I didn't have my phone on me. The producer of the film handed me over this phone and said "someone is on the phone for you Gemma," and here I am completely in all of the scuba gear on with the tank on, and a helmet. My agent just went "dum, dum, dum, dum"(hums Bond theme song), and I just knew then, and I went ahhhh madness, and I was over the moon.” WellsSaidFilmSongActorsMiddleMoonOceanMadnessPhonesProducersBoatAgentsCooksThemeTanksGearsHere I AmDivingHelmetScubaScuba Diving Author:Gemma Arterton
“I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called this one "Lara's Theme" which is really cute. It's a bright orange which is really good for summer or cheering yourself up in winter.” SongFunSummerMy FriendsWinterCuteThemeCheerNailsOrangePolishNail PolishReally Cute Author:Lara Stone
“I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.” KnowsWellsHurtKnow HowEndlessHolesThemeEmbarrassmentDiggingDigging A Hole Author:Ricky Gervais
“If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.” IfsGivingHas BeensDoneMovingChanceThemeBlindersGive It A Chance Author:Tyler Perry
“Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.” WellsDifferentFourBrotherSummerGreenThemeAlamoGreen Leaves Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.” EnoughUseFilmGrewSummerGrew UpGreenFamiliarThemeAssociationNeedlesWayneKung FuAlamoGreen LeavesKung Fu Movie Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."” DifferentUsedFoundSidesRecordsSummerGreenSevenStoresFantasticThemeJapanMagnificentFlipRecord StoresAlamoGreen LeavesMagnificent Seven Author:Quentin Tarantino
“People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.” PeopleWorldGrowing UpGrowingIdealsErasThemeLinks80sConfusing Author:Sam de Jong
“The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsWholeLibertyPeriodsThemeZero80sElectronic MusicIdiomDerangedLess Than Zero Author:Sam de Jong
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.” YearsTwoTogetherFilmSongClassCarDesignStudentsBandYears AgoConstantSingersObsessedThemeLanesCuzMovie Love Author:Ladyhawke
“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.” IfsReasonWaitingRecordsFocusRemainsHistoricalMathCorporateThemeOppositionJuneJulyResonanceAnti SemitismNominationsUnbrokenConfirmationGarlandsRadicalismLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.” IfsThinkingLooksWarHardReasonDifficultSimpleConstantDefinitionsTerrorismThemeAcademicConferencesWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismDeep ThinkingAcademic Work Author:Noam Chomsky
“The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.” PeopleViewsSupportMajorsCandidatesThemeBigotry Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.” ThinkingBookCertainFeltDifficultHonestAspectBeing HonestTheme Author:J. K. Rowling
“I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.” LimitsMy FamilyThemeSpecifics Author:J. K. Rowling
“I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.” IfsFilmSongTvsAppreciateGreat ThingsMemorableTheme Author:James Iha
“Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.” LooksDifferentSchoolOpinionGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolConceptsComplexesCompareThemeTypicalComparing YourselfComparing Yourself To OthersSchool Experience Author:Elle Fanning
“The media theme was, "June is when you win the presidency," because that's what they thought Hillary [Clinton] was doing. Hillary was running ads condemning [Donald] Trump, characterizing Trump, marginalizing Trump.” RunningWinningMediaTrumpClintonThemeAdsPresidencyJuneCondemning Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.” WayBookIdeasCharacterDeeperScreensTheme Author:Noah Hawley
“There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.” WantFeelsWritingI CanBookDifferentLastsEasyLinesLevelsPlansParticularTypeStructureThemeProgression Author:Matthea Harvey
“Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.” SometimesPlayChildhoodNew YorkThemeArthur Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.” ThinkingWayLongSongThreeProcessRecordsProductsHappeningsAlbumsCaliforniaThemeQuartersRealised Author:Mark Hoppus
“I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.” LongArtSoulDreamAmericaWalksInterestingFansConflictLong TimeYour SoulThemeFascinatedAmerican DreamCommerceVersusVery InterestingScott Fitzgerald Author:Matt Bomer
“The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.” StoriesSeemsLyingMillionsSpecialIdentityDrinkResearchVersionsAbsurdCorporateThemeWho We AreFragileShallowConformSociologyCookiesVaryElusiveInsidiousMarket ResearchAdvertisersCuttersSpecial YouCookie Cutters Author:Tom Robbins
“I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.” PeopleThinkingWholeGovernmentTogetherNationsEnjoyWealthProgramBasesFoundationRevolutionaryThemeAccomplishedWorking Together Author:Huey Newton
“I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of that track, but then there are many other times where it can be random and things happen for no reason, just for fun! A storyline can let me organize changes in the music better, like acts in a play.” IfsReasonPlayHappensFunSoundFitMusic IsLet MeTrackThings HappenThemeNo ReasonOrganizeStorylineJust For Fun Author:DJ QBert
“[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.” WantNeedsClintonAccomplishThemeUnifying Author:Tamara Keith
“[Hillary Clinton ] sometimes struggles with the big theme. She loves talking about her plans, and she often is very focused on sort of the smaller things that could be quite valuable in governing but aren't so good in big speechmaking.” SometimesBigsTalkingStrugglePlansClintonValuableFocusedThemeGoverningOften Is Author:Tamara Keith
“The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.” TryingCharacterChoicesDifficultMoralEnvironmentUniversalShouldersGenreThemeSci FiHostileGenre IsMoral ChoicesPolarizingHostile EnvironmentUniversal Themes Author:Jaime Murray
“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.” BookDreamEyeFatherBlackWhiteStruggleCitizensExerciseGayEmpathyThemeImmigrantsDiscourseThrough The EyesPublic DiscourseDreams From My Father Author:Barack Obama
“Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.” WritingDifferentAmericaTrumpAuthorityLike MeThemeMidnightGloomyBleakAuthority And Power Author:Mark Shields
“We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.” IfsDifferentBornCommonGoneJourneyUniqueThemeElderlyLife Journey Author:Annie Lennox
“I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.” ThinkingSelfFictionMalesPityThemeSelf PityUnspokenNoir Author:James Ellroy
“It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.” LongUseSongNamesCompanyLong TimeRedNineThemePublishing Author:Sammy Hagar
“Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.” ThinkingWayTogetherVariousThemeImprovisationParts Of LifeLife Together Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.” CharacterCryBabyAlbumsThemeCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.” ThinkingNeedsStrongDarknessCrimeArmsTrumpRepublicanSpeechCoreThemeConventionsStrong Arms Author:David Brooks
“Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.” ThinkingMindTwoTrumpRepublicanRight NowDemocraticClintonTheme Author:David Brooks