Materials Quotes
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Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
Willem Buiter
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
Timothy Bottoms
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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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.
Mike Leigh
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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.
Abelardo Morell
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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.
Cary Fukunaga
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Stephen Ambrose
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Teachers choose materials, they consider materials’ individuality; unusual.
Ann Lewin-Benham
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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Richard Feynman
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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.
Cholly Atkins
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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.
Casey Affleck
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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.
Michael Caine
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It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.
Romany Malco
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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?
Carol White
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Material things aren't important to me.
Troy Polamalu
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Wolf Kahn
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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.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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'.
Richard Rogers
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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
Michael Behe
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One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.
Charles E. Allen
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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.
Terence McKenna