“Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.” WellsHas BeensReasonDoneJobsPurposeActorsLeftLinesMaterialsSourceScriptsCopiesLeft OutGreat JobAdapting Author:Charles Dance
“It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.” GivingLooksBodyFacesBoysFeetMaterialsLike YouFoolDirectorsScreensDamnYour FaceEditorsDiceCinematographers Author:William Mapother
“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.” ArtMadeShowsSeemsArtistViewsDesignObjectsBuildingMaterialsOrdinaryCaughtHumbleStatementsObsessionSupposed To BeMuseumsUnusualQuartersGood WorkRepetitionTriggersCouchesDebutNecklacesHandgunsReuse Author:Jerry Saltz
“Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?” IfsGivingMaterialsGive MeMiami Author:Dave Barry
“Miami, you can never run out of material. As long as you have Miami around you, you will never, never stop being amused.” LongRunningMaterialsMiamiAmused Author:Dave Barry
“The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.” YearsHumansStillsHuman BeingsConsciousnessMaterialsCivilizationTemporary Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.” KindReadingMaterialsTypeScriptsBones Author:Karen Allen
“What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCasesMaterialsMonthsHearing Author:JD Era
“In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.” HomeLevelsStudyMaterialsMachinesPhysicsGhostQuantumPhysicistParticlesQuantum PhysicsCollideSubatomic Particles Author:Wayne Dyer
“I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.” BookFeltMaterialsKingsFortuneReverenceGood Fortune Author:Bridget Carpenter
“The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.” MaterialsEssentialsTreatmentTraps Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.” VoiceMaterialsStudios Author:Ginuwine
“When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsDoeDoneWholeShowsBitsComedyNiceMaterialsNeededOffersStartingOfferingProven Author:B. J. Porter
“I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.” ThinkingLongRealizingMaterialsLong TimeBallsScoreFewer Author:Amanda Peet
“It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.” PeopleWorldTryingBodySpiritualFormSpiritMaterialsFleetingMaterial WorldReally LivingAnimalistic Author:Surya Das
“It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.” PeopleHelpingLightEnergyCarMaterialsPaperWoodsLifestyleIntensePlasticSteelBehalfBulbsLight BulbManpower Author:Bill Gates
“Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?” KnowsFirstsFilmInterestingMaterialsProjectsPreparedTrialsLiberationAlliesLitTubesDid You KnowCourtroomCompilationNurembergDachau Author:Errol Morris
“We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.” NeedsLooksStillsLevelsPathWindMaterialsTypeResearchObviousStreamsStringsJetKitesBasic Research Author:Bill Gates
“What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.” WorldWellsHardDoneMightEnergyGenerationsMaterialsResearchUniversityHeavyStreamsElectricityCarbonJetMagnetFiberKitesGenerator Author:Bill Gates
“Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.” PeopleFeelsKindStillsFilmAttentionQualityWatchesMaterialsComfortGrimRedeemedAttentiveness Author:Teju Cole
“I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty desperate to get it released. We felt pretty proud of it, and it just escalated from there. We were thinking about playing some live shows, doing the soundtracks live. It was just trying to shine a little light on this 15 years of work we've done.” ThinkingTryingYearsLittlesDoneShowsLightFeltWhiteMaterialsProudShiningBoxesDesperateFinishingSoundtracks Author:Stuart A. Staples
“I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.” PeopleIfsMeanShowsNightWeekTeamTelevisionWindMaterialsSittingBunchHostEvery NightTelevision ShowsPayrollDays Of The WeekLetterman Author:Bruce Vilanch
“A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.” IfsDealsPolicyPositionMaterialsResearchMarketingDivisionMakersForecasts Author:George Friedman
“I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material to work with. If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately, the hounds of hell would descend on him. They're going to tear him apart, everything he's ever done, from not releasing his taxes, to all of his failed business dealings.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoDoneHellMediaTearsMaterialsTrumpTaxesBe GoodRatingDealingsHounds Author:Marco Rubio
“If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.” IfsWayMaySchoolMaterialsInternetAreasDoctorsAccessBest WayBeing The BestGood SchoolGood Doctors Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners. Of course, even owners have bosses and need to worry about keeping their jobs - so Power might be more appropriate.” NeedsMightWould BeJobsCoursesCompanyWorryMaterialsNot SureAppropriateOwnersHelpfulBoss Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.” MadeWholeAbilityChangedMaterialsPerspectiveComedian Author:George Carlin
“I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.” PeopleMaterialsSacraments Author:Pope Francis
“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.” PeopleHumansRealCharacterBodyLyingSufferingValuesTurnsLosesSimpleNumbersWatchesLaughingInformationMaterialsNewsWeightKillingSoldierHuman LifeThings To DoCool ThingsReal ValueKilling Each OtherVideogame Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."” WayWantFeelsStoriesLastsDifficultNaturalMaterialsApproach Author:Steve Erickson
“I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.” ThinkingGivingLongCharacterActorsWaitingInterestMaterialsTvsAmountSeasonsSeriesBackgroundsDevelopingRight ThingRichness Author:Christina Hendricks
“According to "Huffington Post", one Democratic opposition research firm said they spent the past eight months compiling material on [Donald] Trump as he`s risen on the ranks. And that research estimated that if the all material compiled, court and property records,newspaper clips and video, approximately 80 percent of it has yet to surface in this election cycle.” IfsSaidPastRecordsMaterialsMonthsTrumpResearchPercentElectionCourtPropertyDemocraticEightSurfaceNewspapersVideoPostsFirmOppositionCyclesRisenClip Author:Chris Hayes
“I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.” KindFeelingsWantedNovelMaterialsLettersBoxesNewspapersClueEmailDetectivesReceiptsFax Author:Brian Pinkerton
“When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.” AudienceMaterialsSellsCrowdsBrands Author:Noel Fielding
“You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.” WayWritingShowsBigsMightTurnsWaitingSidesTelevisionMaterialsBiggerTelevision ShowsBigger And BetterBigger And Better Things Author:Ice Cube
“Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeEnoughShowsDifficultChanceMaterialsImpressionThese DaysDiverseStanding OutShowing Off Author:Julie Halston
“So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.” MeanAbleActorsExampleMaterialsGayPerformersNever Quit Author:Julie Halston
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingStoriesSongLaughingWrittenMaterialsBlameFaultsGod KnowsTanks Author:Jason Graae
“When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the CD at the shows if you like the show. You may not listen to the CD, you might just throw it in the back of your car and let it warp in the sun. The main thing was you saw the song at the show.” IfsWayWritingMayPlayShowsMightSongSunSawsCarMaterialsCdsBack In The DayWarp Author:Travis Morrison
“Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.” PeopleEndsMediaStrangeMaterialsTheoryMusicianVisualsYoutube Author:Travis Morrison
“I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.” RememberInterestingTalkingWeekHonestyMaterialsGoodnessMajorsProgramNotesComplicatedMathematicalConcertsComposerOriginalityUniquenessScratchesChordsAlgorithms Author:Anna Meredith
“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.” WorldKidsFatherHellTroubleMaterialsGrewSixGrew UpDiedLatterSentimentsTwelveBetter PlaceSurvivingGood WillMake You HappyMaterial ThingsFather DiedTuberculosisRedirection Author:Bernie Siegel
“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.” IfsLooksHardArtistGoneMaterialsLook UpExpensiveMetalsRoofStarvingDictionaryStarving Artist Author:Z'EV
“Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.” EconomicMilitaryMaterialsEssentialsFunctionBritishCapabilityNavyManufacturingRaw MaterialsEconomic PowerMilitary PowerBritish Navy Author:Charles R. Morris
“I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.” GivingWritingMy OwnMaterialsEmsPublicity Author:John Darnielle
“Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam.” ThinkingWaySometimesMightSoundNumbersMaterialsTreatedWowClassical MusicJam Author:John Dieterich
“I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.” PeopleMenYearsBookDifferentDoneLastsGuyStuffTalentMaterialsInvolvedPercentTraditionIncrediblesComicComic BookSuperheroX MenAvengers Author:Mark Millar
“There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive.” LongDifferentMaterialsTypeElementsWeaponsLong TimeConceptsNuclearBunchExpensiveNuclear WeaponsLong Time AgoMessyBreedingProcessingPlutonium Author:Bill Gates