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
I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Had 'Kaanta Laga' been a song sans video or if the video just had youngsters dancing in a discotheque, the audiences wouldn't… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes.… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Early in my career, having many visible tattoos created obstacles and presented quite a challenge to move forward. I've heard comments like,… — Robert LaSardo Copy Share Image
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story… — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it,… — Edward Kitsis Copy Share Image
My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image