Materials Quotes - Page 27

• I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

  Wesley Snipes

  Funny, Children, Dad

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• The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.

  Buster Keaton

  Cutting, Two, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Simple, Political

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• It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Matter, Surprise, Projects

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• It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Actors, Willing, Hard

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• Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Hands, Years, Two

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• I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of material items and monetary wealth than others less fortunate. I believe in sharing, assisting, and just lending a helping hand to people.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Hands, People

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• You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

  Hal Holbrook

  War, Vaccines, People

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• What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Writing, Needs

  "Why I'm moving to Europe" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

  Greta Scacchi

  Running, Night, Keys

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• There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

  John Waters

  Reading, People, House

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• When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

  Renee O'Connor

  Wanted, Finished

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields. they laughed all the time.

  Andrew Shue

  Sports, Fun, Life Lesson

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• My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

  John Mellencamp

  Son, Names, People

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• One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

  J. T. Walsh

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  J. T. Walsh

  Metaphor

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• Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

  Nick Stahl

  Movie, Independent, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Fans, Stories, Way

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• You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.

  Kengo Kuma

  Thinking, Light, Important

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• Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that having religious observance in the home is as important as providing food, clothing and shelter.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Religious, Jesus, Children

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• Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.

  Marija Gimbutas

  Years, Needs, Helping

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• Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Support Systems

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• Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Grief, Mountain, World

  "Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

  Nadeem Aslam

  World, Paper, Strongest

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• Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.

  Sarah Slean

  Life Is Short, Desire, Trying

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