Material Quotes

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England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as… — John Quincy Adams
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against… — George Steiner
I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do… — Daryl Hannah
I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't… — Dolph Lundgren
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of… — Eduardo Galeano
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. — Jerry Garcia
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work… — Brian Greene
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to… — Graham Greene
If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night. — Kathy Griffin
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary… — Walter Gropius
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. — Cathy Guisewite
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my… — Sean Connery
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. — Dane Cook
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness.… — Francis Ford Coppola
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. — Billy Corgan
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I… — Rachel Cusk

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