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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. — Mitch Albom

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

The transnational availability of literary themes related to Nazism is a peculiar sign of cultural globalization. After — Hector Hoyos

I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale. — Victoria Aveyard

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. — Tite Kubo

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. — John O'Hara

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment. — Josh Radnor

I like the stories with the historical themes. — Sarah Sutton

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes. — Jamie Hewlett

I don't believe in themes. — Tina Ambani

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing. — DJ Shadow

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them. — Mamoru Hosoda

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to. — Guy Laliberte

The forms art takes keep changing, but the themes remain the same. — Marty Rubin

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. — Manuel Puig

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture. — Merle Woo

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. — Ernest Gaines

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron

Small minds can never handle great themes. — St. Jerome

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. — James Dyson

It is the themes of your heart that will determine the area you will succeed — Dr Lloyd Magangeni

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

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me. — Gillian Armstrong

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all. — Dave Wolverton

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die. — R. B. Kitaj

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us. — Meg Jay

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing. — Quentin Tarantino

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love. — Andrea Bocelli

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy. — Miranda Hart

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. — Bob McDonnell

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. — Naguib Mahfouz

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times. — Nick Mancuso

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud. — Jillian Medoff

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying. — Stephen Chbosky

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. — John Clayton

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. — Errol Morris

'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart. — Ruth Glick

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. — Lawrence Weschler

Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are. — Kevin Jorgeson

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times. — Clarence Day

I really love writing themes and melody. — Trevor Rabin

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life. — Jimmy Cliff

Themes recur again and again in my work. — Eve Arnold

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro

Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles. — Gary DeMar

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. — Chuck Mangione

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore. — Gavin Hood

Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress. — Brendon Burchard

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. — Jonathan Nolan

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. — Chuck Palahniuk

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema. — Luke Evans

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. — Tiffany Madison

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear. — Clint Eastwood

The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there. — Francesca Gregorini

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. — Chester Bennington

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas. — Hanya Yanagihara

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks. — Jim Crumley

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. — Mitchell Baker

'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess. — Mike Rowe

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things. — Tim Zuck

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. — Anna Torv

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. — David Guterson

Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development. — Nita Leland

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective. — Queen Latifah

Themes so vast that only composers could even approach them. If at all. All other artists must practice humility before them. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. — Martin Scorsese

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves. — Sarah Brightman

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness. — Mike Scheidt

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups. — Sam Altman

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface. — Bo Burnham

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits. — J.K. Rowling

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. — Christopher Eccleston

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that. — Catherine McCormack

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process. — Jason Mraz

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. — John Pilger

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money. — Barry Sternlicht

Pay attention to your visual themes. — Andrew Mayne

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. — Peter Dicken

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out. — Tobias Hill

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin