Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas. — Peter James Copy Share Image
I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show. — George Duke Copy Share Image
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Obviously, the 'Rocky' theme is one of the most recognizable themes in film. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me),… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We're going to talk about the big things that matter, which are the little things, really. For me, Stars has always had… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think what's fun of making a Transformers movie is that it gets to be all of the above. I think, thematically,… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
