Materials Quotes
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I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.
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Teachers choose materials, they consider materials’ individuality; unusual.
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What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
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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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A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
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I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
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Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.
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Material things aren't important to me.
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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this marketing material deliver that information?
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
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One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
