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Quotes About Theme

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
~ lee harper ii
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
~ Leni Riefenstahl
I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.
~ Hank Williams Jr.
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
~ Ian Watson
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
~ Garrison Keillor
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme
~ Charles Spurgeon
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
~ Anne Tyler
It's the story that counts.
~ Vincente Minnelli
P2 (WordPress theme) for replacing email—p2theme.com
~ Timothy Ferriss
In hotel rooms, I watched Russian television toy with the traumatic American history of race, suggesting that Barack Obama had been born in Africa. It struck me as odd that the American entertainer Donald Trump picked up the theme not long thereafter.
~ Timothy Snyder
Americanness is also the central, and centrally unexamined theme of The Room. Wiseau cast himself within the film as a hunk of Johnny Americana, with not corresponding recognition of how absurdly ill fitting this role actually is.
~ Tom Bissell
In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.
~ Rich Brian
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
~ Pat Conroy
Guilt's my mainstream," I explained. "The central theme of my life. The Church laid a foundation of pure guilt inside me. They raised a temple in the soft center of a child. Floors were paved with guilt. Statues of saints were carved out of great blocks of it.
~ Pat Conroy
According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from natural objects and specified meanings but when they are liberated from the usual quality of that meaning by transportation into another medium, the imagination.
~ William Carlos Williams
Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, and also a terrible cliché, so if you're going to use it, it helps to be at least respectfully skeptical about the wilder claims of its theoretical partisans, I think.
~ China Mieville
From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces of the present, and that in the artistic process there is some kind of labour of resistance and a possibility of survival. It gradually also became a fundamental theme of his films.
~ Christian Braad Thomsen
contenía todos los libros y tratados escritos sobre el tema de las grandes narices». (¡Frank! ¡Consígueme un Tristram Shandy!) No
~ Helene Hanff
Love is the key-note of the universe--the theme, the melody.
~ Henry Abbey
The theme is everything. Once one has a theme, it is easy to embroider on it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
~ levine gail carson
And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.
~ John W. Snow
I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
~ Ennio Morricone
Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.
~ Taboo