#theme

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#ambition #animation #chances #come #deep

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women. ↗

— Will Smith

#love #love is #theme #ultimate #women

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people. ↗

— John W. Snow

#big #clearly #continuing #early work #further

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#include #love #love stories #stories #theme

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#gym #ring #survive #theme #those

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#bunch #catch #double #genre #i

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#billions #blow #burdened #our #return

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever. ↗

— Charles Kelley

#could #forever #kind #live #memorable