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“Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.”

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Author:Cynthia Daignault

“When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.”

People Thinking Want Feels Different Done Whole Feelings Fighting Materials Wheels Vague Clay Seductive Therapeutic Ceramics

Author:Francesca DiMattio

“Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page a blank page. But if you're going to make the page a blank page, it's not just the absence of something, it has to become something else. It has to be material, it has to be this thing. I wanted to turn a page into a thing.”

Ifs Trying Kind Wanted Turns Materials Pages Absence Blank Blank Pages Blankness

Author:Vito Acconci

“If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.”

Ifs Want Hard Reason Enough Materials Hard Work Possession Reason Why No Reason Want Something Material Possessions

Author:Charles Trippy

“When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?”

Remember Choices Asks One Thing Youth Materials Remains Possession Our Family Chasing Passing Away Material Possessions

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise”

People Ifs Giving Purpose Existence Leader Materials Noble Permanent Enterprise

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.”

Seems Term Answers Clear Progress Materials Miracle Despite Ancestor Humankind Helpless Privileged Improving Facing Life

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”

Wells Materials Requirements Email Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.”

Knows Feels Materials Musician Feel Good Feels Right Make You Feel Good

Author:Michael Jackson

“Popularity is the product of two factors: (a) how compelling material you offer, and (b) how easy it is to access it. Host free pirated movies and users will flock to the site, even if it's difficult to use.”

Ifs Two Use Easy Difficult Materials Products Offers Access Factors Host Users Compelling Popularity Site Flocks

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.”

Firsts Long Hands Materials Blessing Long Time

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.”

Thinking World Way Should Long War Facts Fighting Jesus Simple Pay Blood Materials Ought Standards Ideals Humble Oil Rubber Standards Of Living Tin Material Things Simple Ways

Author:Clarence Jordan

“I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.”

Knows Process Natural Materials Limits Lows Impact Leaving Simplicity Delicate Footprint Natural Materials

Author:David Trubridge

“A lot of my material was based on my family.”

Materials My Family

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.”

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Author:Carole Katchen

“During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.”

World War Materials Projects Built Theater Brave War Of The Worlds Isolation Halls Concerts Architect Second World War Lincoln Center

Author:Hugh Hardy

“The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.”

Wells Has Beens Language Waiting Results Materials Prove Valuable Decades Collections Fascinating Speakers Stem Dictionary Comprehensive Alaska Slopes Worth The Wait

Author:Lawrence Kaplan

“I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.”

Kind Different Enough Use Today Can Do Materials Projects Glasses Different Kinds Steel Flexible

Author:Gottfried Bohm

“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.”

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Author:Bob Shacochis

“Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.”

Has Beens Stories Materials Holiday Material Things Sharing Stories

Author:Malcolm D. Lee

“I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.”

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Author:Steven Shainberg

“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.”

People Wells Seems Age Certain Order Numbers Willing Materials Comfort Trade Granted Well Being Consumption Economist Rapture

Book:The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability

Source: The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability

“Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.”

Ifs Want Looks Children Materials Hair Protect Block Censorship Pornography

Author:Judith Krug

“We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.”

Giving Audience Successful Television Materials Series Former Remakes Sequels Videogame

Author:Dean Devlin

“As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.”

Should Years Facts Found Teacher Students Materials Lessons Aids Hungry Thirty Tunes Portions Indispensable Thirty Years Bluegrass Years Of Experience

Author:Tony Trischka

“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”

Reality Materials Fundamentals

Author:Anton Zeilinger

“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”

Stills Materials Obscure Cds Dvds

Author:Julian Ovenden

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”

Mean Moments Action Form Choices Courses Given Wish Dangerous Materials Intention Deeds Meaningless Insignificant Ephemeral

Author:Ann Leckie

“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.”

People Trying Light Speak Language Process Psychology Materials Source Truth Is Wide Endless Gaps Shed Manipulate Obfuscation Obsequiousness

Author:Mark Leibovich

“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.”

“The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.”

“A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!”

Kind Streets Materials Rain Heavy All Kinds Benches Good Writers Heavy Rain

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.”

Feelings Joy Stuff Results Quality Seeing Color Materials Paper Harder Canvas Brushes Richness Lush Pigment

Author:Gene Black

“One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.”

Life Should Design Color Materials Be Good Lively Mosaics

Book:Catherine-Paris

Source: Catherine-Paris

“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”

Ifs Mind Children Littles Seems Culture Given Grows Creativity Greater Materials Tradition Encouragement Our Children Entertainment Critical Instruction

Author:C. Sommerville

“There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People”

People Mean Use Film Language Strong Written Materials Elements Interviews Controlled Very Strong Spontaneous Documentaries

Author:Errol Morris

“I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.”

Giving Feels Kind Might Culture Greater Materials Bigger Madness Prize

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.”

Mean Facts Found Understanding Rooms Knowing Policy Materials Empowering

Author:Dana Perino

“If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Littles Bits Practice Policy Materials Normal Little Bit Nerves Get Over Public Speaking Perfectly Normal Fear Of Public Speaking

Author:Dana Perino

“For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.”

Asks Quality Materials Excellence Luxury Quests Perfume Fragrance Raw Materials Suppliers

Author:Francis Kurkdjian

“The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.”

Different Materials Type Fake Scent

Author:Francis Kurkdjian

“Running is a huge category for us. To be able to run to work and have lightweight, breathable, windproof materials you can chuck in your bag that work on technical level but also on a lifestyle level are really important to me. I work out - and I think most people do - and I want to encourage women and inspire them in a way that fits in with their lifestyle.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.”

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Author:Marc Forster

“I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.”

Way Materials Needed Nightclubs

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.”

Ifs Writing Done My Own Materials Jokes Video Comedian

Author:Laura Benanti

“From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion: I find him a little uninteresting and cold, sometimes. Also, at first, the thematic material is not of a kind that makes the greatest appeal, but if you keep with Medtner, I think he will take hold of you, and you're very likely to become a fan.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Littles Sometimes Opinion Fans Materials Cold Appeals Thematic

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

“The animators are fantastic though. They'll shoot their own reference material, and just go into the car park or something. And they might shoot a very funny scene, or sometimes a serious scene. But they're really just trying to work out the motion. Yet what we get treated to is hilarious video of someone running around a parking lot with a broomstick and a helmet!”

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Author:Chris Sanders

“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.”

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Author:David Adjaye

“In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportunities for material strategies. I hate it when people think I went and got something [from Africa] and brought it here. It's more about how it affects the way in which I work and affects [my] creativity.”

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Author:David Adjaye

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