Material Quotes
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I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
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It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
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Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
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I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour!
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I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.
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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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We believe (the four) have information that is relevant and material to the investigation.
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Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.
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A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road.
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I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.
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When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.
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I don't like to attach myself to material things.
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For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.
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For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... When spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
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What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
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At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.
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It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
