Materials Quotes
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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
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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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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.
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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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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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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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Attention is the material I work with.
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Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.
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...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.
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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.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.
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The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
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It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
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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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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
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There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
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A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
