Materials Quotes
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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls
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No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
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Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
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I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
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The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
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When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
