Subject Matter Quotes

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Big, Matter, Whatever

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Wallace Stegner

Teacher, Matter, Ways

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
Tea Obreht

Dark, Matter, Means

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
Tea Obreht

Poetry, Writing, Brain

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
Dierks Bentley

Country, Matter, Song

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce

Greatest, Political, Matter

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
Kyle MacLachlan

Past, Done, Matter

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.
Gerry Beckley

Age, Best, Heart

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
James M. Baldwin

History, Self, Matter

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
Michael Berryman

Art, Movies, Nice

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
Kenneth Noland

Music, Words, Matter

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.
Joan Severance

Funny, Hope, Difficult

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
Robert Wise

Truth, Important, Reality

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
Ida Lupino

Power, Today, Woman

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Helen Frankenthaler

Through, Matter, Wonder

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
Jerry Springer

Politics, Different, Same

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
Jim Dine

Faith, Matter, Emotion

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery

Time, Try, Same

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
Tom Wesselmann

Work, Care, Nothing

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