Material Quotes

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The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have… — Jenny Lawson
Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on… — Raine Maida
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. — Samantha Morton
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that… — Yo-Yo Ma
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with… — Alessandro Nivola
One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous,… — Bebe Neuwirth
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story. — Chris Noth
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited… — Ted Nelson
Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement… — John William Draper
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in… — Kadmi Cohen
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and… — Joseph Stalin
I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own… — Alan Lewis
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the… — Trevor Nunn
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge -… — Nancy Pearcey
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them… — Tamora Pierce
As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the… — Vincent Piazza
I am totally unattached to material items. — Zac Posen
I do like directing other people's material. — Brian De Palma

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