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“I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.”

Ifs Years Two Remember Four Blue Clinton Shoes Theme Bags Nightmare Four Years Navy Navy Blue

Author:Amy Klobuchar

“It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.”

Ideas Red Notion Conservative Teeth Theme Claws Public Good

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

“I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.”

Believe Stills I Believe Creativity Havens Discipline Infinite Theme

Author:Guy Laliberte

“Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.”

Theme Fascinated

Author:Alan Ball

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”

Life Hate Subjects Photography Picks Photographer Photograph Theme Working It Life And Love Exhaustion Photography By Photographers

Author:Dorothea Lange

“I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.”

Character Film Joy Parks Theme Entertaining Walt Theme Parks

Author:John Lasseter

“I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Causes Ought Down And Theme

Author:Doris Lessing

“The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Taught Drama Setting Settings Theme Protagonists

Author:David Mamet

“There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.”

Running Secret Property Theme Toxic Keeping Secrets

Author:Joyce Maynard

“The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.”

People Mind Ideas Causes Interest Harm Perceive Right Thing Theme Doing The Right Thing

Author:Andrew McCarthy

“One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.”

Important Done Religious Regret Conscience Errors Manage Theme Remove

Author:Ian Mcewan

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.”

Writing Book Literature Written Produce Endure Theme Volume Fleas

Author:Herman Melville

“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”

Music Break Groups Rocks Dear Theme Expensive Opera Unheard

Author:Freddie Mercury

“I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.”

Felt Originals Theme Fraud

Author:Moby

“Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.”

Trying Eye Force Land Fingers Evening Settling Theme Maps Routine Dishes Cuisine

Author:Mario Batali

“Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.”

Film Television Series Hated Parks Theme Breakfast 1960s Remakes Cereal Theme Parks Breakfast Cereal Mascots

Author:Alan Moore

“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”

Knows Heart Ends Stories Light Difficult Dark Morning Sun Reader Redemption Theme Take Me Optimist Happy Endings Tunnels

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.”

Jobs Security Majors Theme Downsizing Dilbert

Author:Scott Adams

“You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.”

People Thinking Way Eye Running Moving Interest All Things Appeals Theme Provocative

Author:Edward Norton

“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.”

Men Young Novel Greater Men And Women Theme Young Writers Great Novels

Book:An artist is his own fault

Source: An artist is his own fault

“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.”

Soul Character Would Be Childhood Roots Universal Plant Landscape Theme Soil Shallow Hometown

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.”

Thinking Knows Writing Moments Facts Confusion Theme Exception Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Conor Oberst

“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.”

Values Justice Compassion Courage Theme Good And Bad Family Values

Author:Gary Oldman

“Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.”

Country Running Wanted Culture Lost Theme

Author:Yoko Ono

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

Ifs Artist Hundred Paint Theme

Book:Picasso's Vollard Suite

Source: Picasso's Vollard Suite

“What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.”

Writing Moments Term Theme

Author:Josh Radnor

“God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.”

Prophet Theme Muhammad Quran True Religion Religion God

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.”

Book Character Film Artist Literature Vision Painting Drama Theme Great Character

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Thinking Knows Important Stories Beautiful Film Choices Truth Is Cost Consequence Thirds Scary Cinema Theme Larry Andrew Motifs

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?”

World Whole Asks Vampire Interviews Theme Immortal Quests Ghouls What Is The Meaning

Author:Anne Rice

“Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.”

Way Writing Book Character Desire Literature Challenges Written Obsession Theme Consumed

Author:Anne Rice

“My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.”

Jobs Creating Seasons Developing Range Theme Fabric Initials Fitting Sketching Sampling

Author:Nicole Richie

“If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.”

Ifs Song Three Found Company Accepting Huge Disease Cures Theme Prize Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:John Ritter

“Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.”

Novel Transformation Liberation Theme Celebration

Author:Tom Robbins

“If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.”

Ifs Class Effects Endure Theme Working It American Life

Author:Richard Russo

“It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.”

Kind Stories Sad Love Story Theme Our Society Cynical Sentimental Junk Indication Kinds Of Love

Author:Winona Ryder

“It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.”

Political Interesting Crime Corruption Theme Relevant Political Corruption

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.”

Ifs Book Stars Tomorrow Core Theme Quests Humanistic

Author:William Shatner

“Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.”

Artist Innocence Filmmaker Theme Innocence And Experience

Author:Brooke Shields

“In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.”

Writing Stories Type Tragedy Love Story Theme

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.”

Made Book Shows Film Lying Song Love Is Watches Divine Treasure Theme Woven Psalms Ballads Bollywood

Author:Radhanath Swami

“'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.”

Different Moments Fun Enjoy Records Journey Rocks Type Genre Theme Integrated Colorful Lyrical

Author:Serj Tankian

“I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.”

Found Hours Thousand Miles Theme Juvenile Thousand Miles Moralizing

Author:Horace Walpole

“I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.”

Important Differences Down And Sat Theme Plot Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”

Firsts Political Politics Politician Prosperity Campaigns Theme Political Campaign

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.”

Men Pay Musical Theme Tribute Recurring

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Novel Surface Theme Illustrating

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

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