It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work. — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. — David Shields Copy Share Image
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films… — Graham Phillips Copy Share Image
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for.… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion:… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a… — Gerard Cox Copy Share Image
Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“The Thematic Apperception Test was a psychological test that consisted of a series of ambiguous pictures. Subjects were supposed to tell what… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
“Sabism is thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, bi-chromatic scale, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism… — Lepota Cosmo Copy Share Image
![“The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald…” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e3/paul-kengor-14302_bills_the-presidents-varied-in-the-degree-to-w_424735.jpg)
![“From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion: I find him a little uninteresting and cold, sometimes. Also, at first, the thematic material is not of a kind that makes the greatest appeal, but if you keep with Medtner, I…” quote by Marc-Andre Hamelin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/847/marc-andre-hamelin-28368_appeals_from-nikolai-medtner-himself-who-i-do-no_558027.jpg)
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