Materials Quotes - Page 4

• I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

  Mose Allison

  Jobs, Night, Play

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• I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Python, Special

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• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Cold, Materialism

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• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

  Hart Crane

  Patience, Taken, Order

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

  Javier Bardem

  Good Day, The End Of The Day, Directors

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• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Principles, Recycling, Birth

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• I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

  Brian De Palma

  Trying, Kind, Obsession

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

  Branch Rickey

  Race, Games, Black

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Technique

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• Leaking of classified material is a concern.

  Robert Mueller

  Concern

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• According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Dna, Brain

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• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Stories, Able, Should

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• It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

  Jim Hodges

  Relationship, Hands, Drawing

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• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Energy, Raw Materials

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• When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Night, Finding Yourself, Hustle

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• I do like directing other people's material.

  Brian De Palma

  People

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• The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

  Sonia Braga

  Stars, Knows

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• No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

  Sebastian Bach

  Journey, Years, Would Be

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• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

  Cecil Beaton

  Fashion, Style, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

  Ronald Biggs

  Art, School, London

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Literature, World

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Comedy, Spontaneity

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• Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

  Billy Corgan

  Cat, Thinking, Culture

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