Material Quotes
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
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The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.
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I am totally unattached to material items.
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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
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The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.
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ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
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Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
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One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
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If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.
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There are a lot of very simple recipes in the book, and there's a huge amount of material to help people understand how things work.
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I am learning how to be detached. I hate myself for being so possessive, not of material things, but just of love and people.
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Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.
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I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.