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My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I… — Suzi Quatro
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material,… — Scott Rudin
The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new… — Dee Dee Ramone
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody… — Haley Reinhart
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. — Karl Radek
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people… — Mo Rocca
I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. — Natasha Richardson
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you… — Norman Reedus
I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think… — Brittany Snow
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from… — George Gaylord Simpson
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I… — George Saunders
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate… — Johannes Stark
I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested… — Juliet Stevenson
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for… — Terry Brooks
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be… — Frederick Lenz
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in… — Jean Stapleton
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time. — Nancy Sinatra
I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done. — Romeo Santos
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity. — Susan Sullivan

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