Material Quotes

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The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a… — Jeff Dunham
When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was… — Jeff Dunham
I don't like to attach myself to material things. — Jourdan Dunn
Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material… — Kara DioGuardi
The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live… — Rob Delaney
Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and… — Frank Darabont
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind… — Garret Dillahunt
My material life is simple. — Gustavo Dudamel
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well… — Willem Dafoe
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music… — Tennessee Ernie Ford
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone… — Alex Garland
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you… — Bede Griffiths
I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised… — Alice Englert
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its… — Lascelles Abercrombie
I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the… — Peter Ackroyd
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions. — Alan Bradley
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. — Jennifer Egan
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production… — Atom Egoyan
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of… — David Eagleman
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this… — Will Eisner

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