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«A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
fiction, film, moods, progression, theme
«Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes /love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself /and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others /should we call it ''joy''?»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
crack, creek, creeks, flawless, Great River, heroism, imaginations, introduce, mutilate, mutilated, One half, render, spectacularly, subjugation, theme, themes
«Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
broods, controls, doleful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, merry-go-round, occasionally, purposely, revolve, revolves, revolving, riding, somber, suspicion, theme, The Force, visited
«Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.»
«Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
classical, classical music, theme, theme song, the Classical
«I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
theme
«I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Fool,
Literary,
Satire,
witty,
Writing
| Keywords:
publish, Right or Wrong, satire, Satires, theme, theme song
«A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.»
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
complaint, dejection, dwells, lamentation, Lamentations, observed, peculiar, strain, theme
«It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme»
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