What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I checked the emails the same theme that I could summarize them. "Rush, whatever you're talking about here - [Donald] Trump, you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
When I got hired on 'Battlestar,' they said 'No themes!' At the time 'Battlestar' came out, if you were making a scifi… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often,… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how… — James Mangold 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
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be… — Dana Hill Copy Share Image
The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end.… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS… — George Michael Copy Share Image
In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image