Materials Quotes
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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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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
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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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I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
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Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
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I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.
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For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
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I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
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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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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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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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Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.
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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.
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And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.
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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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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.
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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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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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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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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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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
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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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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.
