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#theme

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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!


Tracy Chapman


#big #big questions #death #feel #i

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.


Tom Cochrane


#always #anymore #certain #deserve #fans

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.


Grazia Deledda


#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.


Atom Egoyan


#context #dealing #economical #family #i

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.


John Gould


#american people #appealed #around #been #beginning

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.


David Maraniss


#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.


Agnes Martin


#artist #artwork #concern #exactly #experience

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.


Carson McCullers


#freedom from #humiliation #love #opposed #root

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.


Aaron McGruder


#dramatic #important #into #music #news

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.


Frederick Sanger


#been #both #centre #contribute #conviction






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