In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much… — Amanda Stott Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain....There was never a place for me in the scheme of things....I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology. — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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