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“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.”

Giving Years Reality Levels Materials Physics Quantum Indication Quantum Physics Giving In

Author:Amit Goswami

“I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.”

Way Years I Can Use Found Materials Studios Drawing Trials Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Two Spiritual Given Materials Yoga Karma Intense Two Years Selfless God Exists Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.”

Years Two Shows Might Fall Stuff Records Materials Elements Exciting I Realized Two Years Flats Preparing Going To Work Exciting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.”

Years Humans Two Three Materials Three Years Fewer Haste Without Hope

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends.”

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Author:Graham King

“Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.”

Way Want Trying Years Materials Paint Painter Behave

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.”

Men Years Firsts Has Beens Said Dog Materials Red Years Ago Critics Excellent Mice My Dog Manuscripts

Author:John Steinbeck

“There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.”

Years Strong Materials Demand Increase Following Surface Merchandise

Author:Adam Kluger

“There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.”

Men Years Has Beens Made Film Dark Novel Comedy Materials Huge Including Studios Establishment Cult Screenplays Dice Paramount Dark Comedy

Author:Luke Rhinehart

“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.”

“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.”

“There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.”

Years Past Song Rocks Produce Materials Musician All Time Excellent Songwriters Unimportant Rock Music Manure Rock Musicians

Author:Noel Gallagher

“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”

“I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.”

Trying Years Done My Own Perfect Design Materials Quests Brushes Never Ending Refining

Author:James Nares

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.”

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.”

Years Children Facts Shows Seems School Enjoy Answers Groups Materials Findings Capable Adults Absence Experiments Right Answers Supervision Answering Questions

Author:Sugata Mitra

“All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.”

Years Made Stars Stuff Blood Materials Red Years Ago Billions Teeth Giants Iron Genes Carbon Interiors Metallic Calcium

Book:Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

“The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.”

Years Long Art Lines Quality Cutting Materials Areas Islands Native Hats Shore Chicago Boston San Francisco County Philadelphia Snob Good Quality Long Island Peninsulas Tweed

Author:Russell Lynes

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through science and fiction. From candlepower to teleportation, all the way to the fate of the cosmos in the span of a googol years, this is a cornucopia of teachable material. It is also a reminder of the simple thrill of applying science to the world around us, real or imagined. A new classic.”

World Way Years Real Would Be Simple Interesting Fiction Fate Materials Aliens Classic Cosmos Thrill Delightful Engaging Reminders Wizards Understatement Teachable

Author:Caleb Scharf

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

World Years Has Beens Made America Past Challenges Records Progress Century Materials Achievement Hundred Fifty Enterprise World History

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!”

Ifs Writing Years Book Hard Use Would Be Materials My Family Manage Labour Delightful Annoyance

Book:The letters of Lewis Carroll

Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll

“There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.”

People Writing Years Two Ends Voice Stage Materials Periods I Realized Being True Two Years Entertaining Metamorphosis True To Myself Writing Voice

Author:George Carlin

“I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.”

“I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.”

Writing Years Lasts Happened Materials Collections Last Year Essays Find Me Magnetic Personal Essays

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.”

Years May Two Different Actors Watches Materials Kings Elements Six Add Incredibles Theatre Nine Two Years Lear

Author:Kevin Spacey

“My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.”

Years Kind Long Song Process Creative Materials Shapes Years Ago Pushing Melody Creative Process Shifting

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.”

Ifs Years Matter Reality Today Song Creative Materials Picks Years Ago Shells

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Mind Work Materials Hollywood Meetings Oscars

Author:William Goldman

“I'm realistic about it. It's been quite some years since I've worked full-time in that area, so I no longer have any material that bears any relevance to my life or the audience. I'd need to take probably a year off, which I wouldn't be prepared to do, so it's a romantic ideal.”

Needs Years Audience Materials Bears Areas Ideals Prepared Realistic Be Prepared Relevance

Author:Eric Bana

“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

“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.”

“[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.”

Should Years Would Be Able Materials Weapons Iraq Nuclear Acquire Nuclear Weapons

Author:George W. Bush

“Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Found Given Force Simple Effects Materials Tomorrow Picks Asking Occasions Unconscious Desks Declaration Contracting Count On Me

Author:Norman Mailer

“Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.”

Ifs Years Kind Grows Nature Millions Strength Materials Years Ago Size Critical Clever Flaws Fiber

Author:Asa Baber

“Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I took classes there. She was the one that, when we'd go to the store and I would have a pack of eight pastels, she'd say, "No, get the 24-pack." She was always encouraging me to get the best materials, which was really awesome.”

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Author:Jeff Vespa

“"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.”

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Author:Tom Clancy

“We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.”

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Author:Redd Foxx

“No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.”

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Author:Sebastian Bach

“Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245 years. In slave narratives there were all types of tales and drama and heroism and pain and love that happened during that time. That's rich material for drama! Everyone complains that there are no new stories left to tell. Not true, there are a whole bunch of them, and they're all American with a capital A.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.”

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Author:Josh Groban

“I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.”

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Author:Hal Holbrook

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