Material Quotes
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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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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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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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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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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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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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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I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.
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A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road.
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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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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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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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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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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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We believe (the four) have information that is relevant and material to the investigation.
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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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I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.
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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
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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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Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.
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Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
