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“When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.”

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Author:Ron Ben-Israel

“One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.”

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Author:Justin Cronin

“Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.”

People Play Certain Asks Interest Ask Me Theme Stakes Personal Experiences Mandates

Author:Billy Crudup

“I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.”

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Author:Don Cheadle

“Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.”

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Book:A Black Theology of Liberation

Source: A Black Theology of Liberation

“Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.”

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Author:Suzanne Collins

“I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.”

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Author:Anne Dudley

“A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.”

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Author:Emily Giffin

“I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.”

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Author:David Guterson

“I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.”

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Author:Alice Englert

“I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Film Social Deals Theme Our Society Smallest Units Scope

Author:Atom Egoyan

“A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.”

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Author:Vince Flynn

“I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.”

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Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go.”

“The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.”

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Author:Peter Sagal

“Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.”

“There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.”

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Author:Prabal Gurung

“Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”

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Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.”

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Author:Peter Hain

“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.”

Has Beens Age Individual Enjoy Community Differences Degrees Good Things Theme Declaration Discontent

Author:William Herschel

“I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Feminist Deny Filmmaker Theme Sensibility

Author:Callie Khouri

“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.”

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