quotes about Materials
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I don't compose. I assemble materials.
-- Aaron CoplandSource : "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
-- Alan Kay -
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
-- Alan Watts -
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.
-- Amit Goswami -
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
-- Antoni Tapies -
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.
-- Babyface -
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
-- Barry Manilow -
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
-- Bill Crawford -
I do like directing other people's material.
-- Brian De Palma -
Painting is so much more than the materials.
-- Brian Johnson -
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The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
-- Carlos Slim -
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
-- Charlize Theron -
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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
-- Christian MarclaySource : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
-- Dan Brown -
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
-- Daniel Baldwin -
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The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.
-- David Batchelor -
Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.
-- David Milne -
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
-- David RicardoSource : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.284
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If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
-- David Strathairn -
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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
-- Davy Jones -
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
-- Denzel Washington -
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
-- Don Johnson -
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
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The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
-- Drew EndySource : "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.
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I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
-- Ed HarrisSource : "Ed Harris Talks SNOWPIERCER, Joining the Film, Being a Fan of Bong Joon Ho and His Unusual Shooting Style, Editing While Shooting, and Working with Chris Evans". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2014.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
-- F. Murray Abraham -
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
-- Francine Prose -
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
-- Frank AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
-- Harold Laski -
Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
-- Helen Gurley BrownSource : Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.22, Open Road Media
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
-- Henry Ford -
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
-- Hervey Allen -
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
-- Hod LipsonSource : "Can 3D Printers Reshape The World?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. June 22, 2012.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
-- Ian McewanSource : "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.
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The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
-- Ida Rolf -
I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
-- Isabel Allende -
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
-- J. D. Salinger -
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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
-- J. L. Austin -
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
-- J. T. Walsh -
I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.
-- Jackee Harry -
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Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
-- James D. HoustonSource : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
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Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.
-- Jay Sankey -
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
-- Jean Froissart -
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
-- Jerry Garcia -
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Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
-- Joan Jett -
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system,
-- Joel Fuhrman -
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
-- John Chamberlain -
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
-- John F. CarlsonSource : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.140, Courier Corporation
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Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.
-- John French Sloan -
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
-- John Updike -
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
-- Joseph Addison -
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Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
-- Joseph Story -
I don't like to attach myself to material things.
-- Jourdan DunnSource : "10 Questions: Jourdan Dunn" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. September 25, 2012.
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The true is not material reality only.
-- Jules BretonSource : Jules Breton (1892). “The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography”
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I work with things left over from other things.
-- Julian Schnabel -
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As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.
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Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers
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A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
-- Lee Friedlander -
I don't think I'm going to be priest material.
-- Lionel Richie -
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
-- Lionel Trilling -
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
-- Lucinda Williams -
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No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.96, Shambhala Publications
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Each material is only what we make it.
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Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
-- M. Night ShyamalanSource : Source: collider.com
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I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
-- Marc NewsonSource : "Designing a life less ordinary". www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.
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It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?
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The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.
-- Masaoka Shiki -
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
-- Matt LeBlancSource : "Matt LeBlanc Talks Candidly About Friends: His Favorite Episode, His Salary, and the Memorabilia He Didn't Get". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. August 20, 2012.
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Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
-- Michael Behe -
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
-- Michael Cunningham -
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
-- Michael HeizerSource : Michael Heizer, Barbara Heizer (1984). “Sculpture in Reverse”
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
-- Mickey Rourke -
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I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
-- Mira Sorvino -
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
-- Morgan Freeman -
I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
-- Natasha Richardson -
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
-- Niels Bohr -
I always viewed life as material for a movie.
-- Noah Baumbach -
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
-- Novalis -
A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.
-- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov -