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“There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that eventually becomes a song. There's a slow permeation of the idea and then that leads into a bunch of themes and becomes a bunch of lines.”

Way Ideas Song Lines Numbers Week Months Circles Bunch Phrases Theme

Author:Dan Mangan

“There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.”

Kind Memories Millions Musical Billions All Kinds Theme Atoms

Author:Erykah Badu

“In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.”

World Giving Water Elements Ocean Opposites Desert Islands Theme Desirable Anchors Precarious

Author:Vera Nazarian

“A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.”

Common Environment Ordinary Granted Related Theme Exploration Existential Blindness Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Vera Nazarian

“My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.”

Writing Character Purpose Courses Loss Emotion Constant Creator Fulfillment Theme Arcs Thematic

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a dramatic structure, the form and sound and shape of a play, and the equivalent structure in music. Both deal with sound, of course, and also with idea, theme.”

Thinking Ideas Play Form Courses Sound My Own Deals Shapes Structure Dramatic Theme

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.”

Ifs Thinking Art Enough Art Is Theme Good Enough Works Of Art

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.”

Play Whole Seems School Form Social Numbers Dangerous Intellectual Criticism Theme Progressive Realistic Censorship Playwright

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.”

Ends Play Character Method Theme Unconscious Suspects

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Glorious the song, when God's the theme.”

Song Glorious Theme

Author:Christopher Smart

“My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.”

Book Together Goal Shapes Pages Theme Working Together Crucial Placement

Author:Chris Raschka

“I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.”

Thinking Knows Mean Running Theme

Author:Nan Goldin

“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.”

“I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was sort of my real interest was, at one point, musically, was how you could weave those different kinds of songs and traditions together.”

Kind Different Real Together Song Interest Common Tradition Theme Different Kinds Intrigued

Author:Jill Stein

“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.”

Ifs Want Looks Stills Political Black Painting Type Models Fruit Narrative Theme Brown Bowls Viewers Lenses

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.”

Thinking Age Today Young Findings Connections Theme Broads Hobbies Young Age

Author:Dean Kamen

“The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.”

Real Reality Would Be Desire Artist Fairs Theme Imitation Memorial Imitating Real Artists

Author:Socrates

“You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.”

Philosophy Happens Loss Lovers Paper Theme Cheerful Papers Alienation Love And Friendship Loss Of A Friend

Author:Catherine Wilson

“That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.”

Doe Bigs Able Song Winning Television Battle These Days Titles Theme Sequence

Author:Peter M. Lenkov

“I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.”

Strange Doctors Theme Tunes

Author:Tilda Swinton

“When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.”

Thinking Writing Trying Particular Messages Theme

Author:Ransom Riggs

“To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.”

Kind Seems Magazines Odd Theme Swedish

Author:Michael S. Smith

“When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.”

Want Trying Picks Scripts Theme

Author:Michael Caton-Jones

“Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.”

Want Firsts Enjoy Sound Audience Skills Musician Jazz Notes Theme

Author:John Kao

“I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.”

People Years Film Moral Journey Grew Hero Grew Up Myth Guides Brilliant I Realized Diets Classic Experts Theme Fables Chronicles Disney Film

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.”

People Moral Grew Grew Up Myth Guides Diets Experts Theme Fables

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].”

Want Film Scene Theme Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“Nobody who comes out of the movie [Aquarius] focuses on those [sexual] scenes, because they are not the heart of the film. They are a consequence of the story, but I don't remember hearing audiences talking about them afterward. They came out discussing themes of resistance, history and memory. They're talking about the beauty of the self and how it can become demolished.”

Heart Self Stories Remember Film Memories Talking Audience Scene Consequence Hearing Resistance Theme Discussing Aquarius History And Memory

Author:Sonia Braga

“The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.”

Doe Problem Body Female Treats Memoir Theme Female Body

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.”

World Writing May Littles Ideas Real Character Bits Talking Little Bit Photographer Photograph Outcomes Theme Real World Documentaries Imaginative Inner World Intersections Kernel

Author:Sam Abell

“In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was "The central theme of American Literature is an attempt to reconcile what we've done to the New World." wrote that down in my notebook, and thought, "What is he talking about?" But that's what I think about now. The New World and what we've done to it.”

Thinking World Firsts Done Literature Talking Class Mouths University Sentences Theme Professors New World Notebook Reconcile First Class Kentucky American Literature

Author:Sam Abell

“No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.”

Writing Able Found Theme Alarms Obsessive

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.”

Writing Able Language Imagination Subjects Theme Abandoned My Imagination Formation Obsessive

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.”

Thinking Writing Country Body Nations Plans Conflict Plenty Theme Wicked Wholeness Transcendence Emerging Starvation Mutilation Country Love Thinking Ahead

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.”

Courses Violence Relation Theme Valleys

Author:Ti West

“I'm thinking, "What difference will this sermon make in their lives tomorrow? What am I trying to give them that will make a difference?" For example, had to do with the theme that Jesus will not let go of you. He's holding onto you. I talked to them about the disciples and Peter on the night before the crucifixion of Christ - how Jesus said that all of you are going to turn away, but He would be waiting for them in Galilee.”

“I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.”

Moving Felt Teach Grace Praying Needed Salvation Theme

Author:Max Lucado

“I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.”

Writing I Can Stories Class Focus Adventure Structure Assuming Theme Working Class Feats Swedish Stockholm Cockneys

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right now and what do we need to do, and tell it from that place. If we really make it character driven and theme driven, I think we're going to offer up something new for the audience.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Looks Character Asks Audience Know How Right Now Offers Driven Theme Something New Doing Right

Author:Dylan Clark

“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?”

Want Needs Two Different Forget Views Pieces Design Months Essentials Twenties Point Of View Mood Boards Theme Being Cool Two Months Suitcases Different Points Of View

Author:Christophe Lemaire

“Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements that you want to see, but also attach them to something that has cohesion, like a mold.”

Want Elements Concepts Add Theme Plot Mold Cohesion Tetris

Author:Shane Black

“It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it.”

Way Writing Sometimes Pages Concepts Missions Focused Partners Statements Theme Spine Mission Statement

Author:Shane Black

“Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.”

May Trump Theme June

Author:Mark Shields

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

People Character Selfish Theme Selfish People

Author:Liza Campbell

“I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.”

Trump Republican Election Theme

Author:William Kristol

“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.”

People Knows Heart Book Stories Shows Form Ability Grace Dog Fronts Crosses Redemption Theme Mice

Author:Kate DiCamillo

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

Book Happens Theme Nothing New

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.”

Moments Stories Path Player Theme Allowing Participants Disservice Dictating

Author:Chris Avellone

“I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.”

Ifs Thinking Needs War Use Language Balance Careful Theme

Author:PJ Harvey

“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.”

Feels I Can Situation Magic Events Objects Currents Familiar Theme Daily Life Current Events

Author:Domenico Gnoli

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