Material Quotes

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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount… — Christopher Nolan
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people,… — Peter O'Toole
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. — Mary Oliver
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot… — George Orwell
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey… — Camille Paglia
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material. — Trey Parker
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. — Alexander Payne
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day… — Lester B. Pearson
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. — James Cash Penney
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country,… — Richard Perle
Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise… — Brad Pitt
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality… — Dennis Prager
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical. — Harold Prince
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I… — Harold Prince
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. — Robert Quillen
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together… — Paul Rand
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality… — Herbert Read

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