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“The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.”

Feels Writing Trying Materials Anxiety Hardest Uncomfortable Hardest Thing Explaining Anxiety Attacks

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.”

Way Feels Different Sometimes Reading Sides Creative Materials Different Ways Fuel Favourite Firing Synapses

Author:Raine Maida

“I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.”

Wells Written Happened Effects Materials Tragic Well Written

Author:Samantha Morton

“The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.”

Kind Ideas Missing Materials Communication Possession Frustrated Shelves Confined Cds Interactive Material Possessions

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.”

Real Sometimes Stories Film Process Materials Periods Research Exciting Real Things Intricate Letdowns

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.”

Way Firsts Shows Mines Materials Happenings First Time New Things Spontaneous

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.”

Knows I Can Stories Actors Materials Hollywood Hungry

Author:Chris Noth

“The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.”

Ideas Space Cutting Materials Limits Keep Going Constraints Printing

Author:Ted Nelson

“Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Materials Renounce Material Things Misinterpretation

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Thinking Mind Country Truth Reading Materials Citizens Fellows

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

Life Persons Body Science Life Is Humanity Courses Lines Movement Materials Resistance Course Of Life

Book:Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

Source: Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.”

“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.”

Littles Book Light Teaching Century Materials Source Infinite Jew Doctrine Former Latter Emanate

Author:Albert Pike

“I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.”

Ifs Giving Mind Sometimes Might Wanted Materials Importance Crucial Penalties

Author:Alan Lewis

“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”

May Self Matter Facts Helping Past Progress Materials Scientist Significant Devoted Evident Odds And Ends

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

World Trying Firsts War Bigs Next Events Materials England Historical Musical Strikes War Of The Worlds Documentaries First World War Historical Events

Author:Trevor Nunn

“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”

Facts America Political Social Information Materials Resources Determine Accepted Political Power

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

Giving Book One Thing Materials Periods News Newspapers Teenager Smarter Publishers Time Periods

Author:Tamora Pierce

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

Actors Opportunity Given Materials Tvs Scene Series Luxury Time Spent Tv Series

Author:Vincent Piazza

“I am totally unattached to material items.”

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Author:Zac Posen

“I do like directing other people's material.”

People Materials

Author:Brian De Palma

“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 works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.”

Way Body Certain Community Principles Economic Materials Scientist Productions Titles Features Organized Goods

Author: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 kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.”

Writing Kind Pleasure Materials Instruments Singers Seekers Cradle Nancy Younger Sister

Author: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, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.”

Writing Character Stories Beautiful Materials Smart Very Smart Beautiful Writing Thematic

Author: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 material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.”

People Should Play Song Three Issues Materials Albums Ramones

Author: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 who is just regurgitating other material.”

People Looks Able Artist Steps Materials Look At Me True Artists

Author:Haley Reinhart

“Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.”

Views Materials Mass Agitation

Author: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 will think it is, well they won't.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Important Materials Important Things Convinced

Author:Mo Rocca

“I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.”

Comedy Materials

Author: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 know how it ends.”

Knows Ends Play Film Know How Materials

Author:Norman Reedus

“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

Moments Materials Taste Letting Go Soil Raw Materials

Author:Rene Redzepi

“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 it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.”

People Thinking Light Dies Speak Materials Assuming Hairspray

Author: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 the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”

Men Important Universe Sides Talent Materials Concepts Structure Solar System Dogmatic Origin Of Man

Author: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 found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“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 the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.”

Ifs May Stills Done Deals Fields Materials Structure Conclusion Atoms Nevertheless Physicist Theoretical Evaluate

Author: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 in talent.”

Talent Youth Materials Perfection Hollywood Claims Lays

Author: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 a story, and they look at it that way.”

Way Writing Firsts Looks Stories Happens Fiction Strange Materials Beast Observers Fiction Writers

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“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 a solid material world.”

World Made Light Universe Levels Attention Awareness Materials Buddhism Material World

Author: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 an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.”

People Voice Successful Materials Mediocre

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.”

Trying Looks Done Materials

Author:Romeo Santos

“To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.”

Ends Humanity Materials

Author:Susan Sullivan

“I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.”

Kind Mean Certain My Own Novel Materials Directors Excited Genre Someday Conventions

Author:Todd Solondz

“I'm currently trying to direct my own material.”

Trying My Own Materials Direct

Author:Tom Skerritt

“I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.”

Feels Earth Moving Strong Sun Planets Materials Keys Directors Ingredients Rotation

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.”

Made Stills Hard Feelings Might Goal Term Walks Materials Excited Made It Auditions Short Term Short Term Goals

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.”

Thinking Wells Character Helping Might Courses Study Materials Helpful

Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.”

People Knows Want Giving Wells Two Play Shows Song Stuff Materials Give Me Albums Balanced Archives Recitals

Author:Kate Voegele

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