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“But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.”

Ifs Stuff Audience Gone Heard Materials Majority Albums New Stuff

Author:Patton Oswalt

“The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.”

Giving Voice Church Lines Materials Bottom Empowering Bottom Line Giving Voice

Author:Steve Coogan

“I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.”

Knows World Feels Writing Trying Book Character Stories Seems Might Choices Lost Too Much Materials Pages Down And Formal Outlines Main Characters

Author:Michael Chabon

“When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.”

Whole Feelings Inspiration Spiritual Education Security Materials Balance Comfort Laughter Unions Psychological Dimensions Spiritual Dimensions

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

“The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.”

People World Would Be Materials Cost Material World

Author:William Moseley

“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.”

Way Writing Firsts Two Book Ideas Reason Seems Emotional Materials Intellectual Draws Psychological Motive Unconscious Two Ways

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.”

Kind States Spirit Artist Culture Understanding United United States Materials Products Ordinary Capitalism Profound Western Warhol

Author:Ai Weiwei

“A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.”

People Knows Want Enough Bigs Stuff Materials Albums

Author:Danger Mouse

“The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.”

People World Should Done Artist Audience Fans Materials Reader Letters Connections Should Have Response Digital Digital World

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.”

Stills Today Attitude Particular Materials Photography Comment Do The Best Present Day

Author:William Eggleston

“Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.”

Information Emotional Materials Essence Impact Filmmaking Documentaries Manipulate Delivering

Author:Richard Ray Perez

“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.”

People Giving Looks Two Ideas Ends Three Pieces Crazy Materials Picks Photographer Photograph Instruction Closest Mislead Documentation

Author:Marina Abramovic

“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.”

World Stories Mother Materials Conversation Tradition Debt Storytelling Discussion Grandmother Repetition My Grandmother Misunderstanding Oral Tradition Condensation

Author:Lucrecia Martel

“Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.”

Age Materials Filmmaker Old Relationship

Author:Duncan Roy

“I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.”

Trying Wells Use Feelings Actors Honest Honesty Design Materials Scene Direct Cameras

Author:Ira Sachs

“When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.”

Reading My Own Pleasure Fiction Mystery Materials

Author:David McCullough

“My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.”

Use Space Design Materials Come Up Objectives

Author:Tadao Ando

“When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.”

People Use Used Written Materials Asking Scripts Score Revival

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.”

Thinking Giving Energy Attention Focus Materials Majors Material Things

Author:Sam Keen

“Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.”

Writing Soul Character Actors Challenges Talent Materials Depends Green Screens Grass Leaves Of Grass

Author:Edward Norton

“Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me.”

People Writing Children Two Easy Stuff Wife Materials Source Direct Delight My Wife My Children Grass Interpretation Surprising Leaves Of Grass Elevating

Author:Edward Norton

“There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.”

Way Materials Great Men Organize Fractions

Author:Marge Piercy

“Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.”

“You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.”

People Writing Trying Fiction Wonderful Materials Degrees Letters Surface Biographies Diaries Below The Surface Writing History

Author:David McCullough

“I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.”

Stills Real Country Facts Literature Challenges Materials Publishing Publishers

Author:Alan Lightman

“If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.”

Ifs Attitude Teacher Students Materials Committed Excited Bored Enthusiastic

Author:David McCullough

“I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Style Particular Materials Integrity Intention Editing

Author:Jay Cassidy

“I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.”

Humans Whole Left Difficult Religious Human Beings Responsibility Materials Very Good Possession Obedience Mature Nun Celibacy Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.”

World Play Bits Fantasy Childhood Brother Materials Transformation My Brother Fantasy Worlds

Author:David Rockwell

“I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material to move a whole house. But we're just moving one plant. Really you just put the plant in a truck and go.”

Enough Whole Use Moving House Materials Plant Pants Truck Transport Packing Hermes

Author:Alexis Stewart

“Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.”

Mind Long Has Beens Turns Effort Materials Amount Weight Scales Sufficient Pairs Satori

Author:Alan Watts

“The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.”

Mind Has Beens Real States Pay Century Materials Property University Dues Rational State Of Mind Heritage Location Salary Rational Thought Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.”

World Needs Mean Reality Spiritual Levels Views This World Materials Ordinary Regard Patterns Transcendent Material World

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center... either you are out, yearning.”

World Needs Should Looks Spiritual Asks Names Love Is Materials Waste Definitions Discrimination Categories Yearning Should I Without Love Spiritual Love Life Without Love

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.”

Men World Humans Certain Energy Human Beings Creative Share Materials Overcoming Creator Mythology Material World Secretive Creative Energy

Author:John Cowper Powys

“If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.”

Ifs May Ends Body Nations President Deals Successful Materials Duty Survival Congress Mysterious Crucial Passages Convoluted

Author:Jon Stewart

“We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.”

Thinking World Want Sometimes States Reason Dream United Cases United States Materials American Dream Material Things

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.”

Form Social Materials Fool Conversation Demand Occasions Diplomats

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.”

Social Danger Materials Circumstances Organization Patterns Toxic Discovering Exposure Toxicity Social Organization

Author:Richard G. Wilkinson

“Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.”

Enough Lasts Childhood Materials Lifetime Southern

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.”

Today Spiritual Interest Accepting Poverty Materials Citizens Ordinary Characteristics Affected Ordinary Citizens Grumbling

Author:Charles Handy

“Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.”

Remember Faces Spiritual Life Is Purpose Materials Purpose Of Life Suggestions Spiritual Nature

Author:Alan Cohen

“This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.”

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.”

“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.”

Book Real Sometimes Form Differences Materials Taste Intellectual Newspapers Attractive Poison Disgusting

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.”

Giving Materials Deep Thought Plentiful Misinterpretation

Book:The Curate's Awakening

Source: The Curate's Awakening

“To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.”

Dream Spirit Break Divine Materials Disease Senses Cures Breaking Down

Book:The Christian Science Journal

Source: The Christian Science Journal

“You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.”

World Needs Writing Feelings Song Names Sides Lines Groups Materials Draws Pops Holes Not Interested Dylan Lennon Vapid

Author:Roger Waters

“There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.”

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