Subject Matter Quotes - Page 7

• The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

  Martha Stewart

  Family, Live Life, Passion

  "Martha Stewart on Perseverance", www.achievement.org.

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• A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

  Mark Rothko

  Matter, Timeless, Tragic

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

  Max Weber

  Data, Age, Research

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.157, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

  Ovid

  Latin, Matter, Workmanship

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• At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.

  Henry Cuellar

  Technology, Years, Immigration

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, Labels

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Drawing, Matter, Size

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• The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

  Jim Dine

  Dine In, Have Faith, Matter

  Jim Dine, Constance Glenn, California State University, Long Beach. Art Museum and Galleries (1979). “Jim Dine figure drawings, 1975-1979: published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, October 15-November 11, 1979”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

  Ida Lupino

  Directors, Matter, Today

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

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• Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

  Rex Reed

  Writing, Emotional, Rocks

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• In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

  Charlie Munger

  Motivational, Wise, Zero

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• I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

  Kenneth Noland

  Thinking, Matter, Painting

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Motherhood, Age

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Technique, Depth

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 06, 2013

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• The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Science, People, Interesting

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• Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

  John Irving

  Writing, Dark, Matter

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

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• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  Ed Harris

  People, Matter, Intriguing

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• When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Taken, Risk, Age

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• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Home, Historical

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• I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

  Don Henley

  Writing, Men, Focus

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

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• Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  Michael Berryman

  Art, Honesty, Nice

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

  Jerry Springer

  Views, Different, News

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• THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects.

  Craig Lucas

  Crazy, Real, Play

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