Quotes About Material

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Premium content matters.

I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Soccer is an endless source of material. I mean, take my Paralympic teammates. It's a mix of 12 goofy, disabled guys and when we come together, we just laugh at each other.

To them, happiness was not, as it often is in present-day discussions, simply a subjective state, such as might be induced by chemicals; it meant attaining the preconditions for personal happiness, including domestic affection, material sufficiency and a suitable degree of freedom.

On the way we talked about the road sign Bridge Ices Before Road. I always wondered, If that's a problem, why don't they just build the bridge out of the same stuff they use to build the road? Drema explained that the bridge isn't made out of different material than the road, but that the bridge ices quicker because it's alone, hanging there without the land under it to keep it warm.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot.

la luz de este coste, no resulta tan desconcertante que, en nombre de la reciprocidad, devolvamos a menudo más de lo que hemos recibido. Ni tampoco es tan extraño que, con frecuencia, evitemos pedir un favor que necesitamos si no estamos en condiciones de devolverlo. Sencillamente, el coste psicológico puede pesar más que la pérdida material.

In the ensuing "higher phase" of communist society, which became known among Marxists as "communism" or "full communism," the modern productive powers that had been developed but fettered by capitalism would be completely liberated, material plenty would be achieved, people would be remunerated according to need, and government in the old repressive sense would cease to exist.[570]