Material Quotes

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Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. — John D. Barrow
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your… — Alice Munro
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of… — Abdellatif Laabi
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material. — Kevin Nealon
When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together. — Kevin Nealon
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat… — Julia Cameron
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within… — Bill Dixon
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. — Stephen Ambrose
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being… — Wim Wenders
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork… — Neil Gershenfeld
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and… — Anna Julia Cooper
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. — Ralph Fiennes
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they… — Chaim Potok
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material. — Robin Gibb
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises… — Michael D. Higgins
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit… — Jim Hodges
There's no shortage of material in life. — Jonathan Ames
If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life. — Rob Brydon

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