Material Quotes
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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 just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.
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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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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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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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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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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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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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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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I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.
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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 don't like to attach myself to material things.
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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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We believe (the four) have information that is relevant and material to the investigation.
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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 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 consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
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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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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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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
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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.
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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.
