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Material Quotes
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. - Barbara Hepworth Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Its very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. - John Frankenheimer Quotes
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. - Jean Piaget Quotes
And for me theres still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. - Jerry Garcia Quotes
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. - Shirley Jackson Quotes
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, its important that we use that voice wisely. - Roberta Flack Quotes
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, thats what counts. - Javier Bardem Quotes
If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. - Joel Coen Quotes
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing. - Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. - Stephen Ambrose Quotes
I dont think theres a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because Ive got other stories to tell. - Richard Russo Quotes
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when theyre gone, but your children are still going to be here, and youre going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. - Alice Munro Quotes
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time. - Nancy Sinatra Quotes
But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material Id be working on. I want to make sure I dont sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction. - Andre Braugher Quotes
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. - Richard M Helms Quotes
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. - Sidney Altman Quotes
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that youre doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. Ive worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make. - Nick Stahl Quotes
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. - Karl Marx Quotes
Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality. - David Gower Quotes
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I thought some of Mrs. Whites material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasnt out to attack Ellen Whites character. - Walter Martin Quotes
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. - Agnes Martin Quotes
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. - Adam Sedgwick Quotes
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. - Mary Oliver Quotes
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject. - Edmund Husserl Quotes
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. - Lionel Trilling Quotes
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? - George Orwell Quotes
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