Materials Quotes
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They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.
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Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.
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What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?
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To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site.
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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.
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Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.
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In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
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I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
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I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
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I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
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Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
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The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
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I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them.
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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.
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If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.
