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“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

“My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.”

Believe Mean Made Philosophy Wanted Father Taken Achieve Materials Being Yourself Spoilt

Author:Tommy Lee

“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.”

Kind Mean Wanted Materials Discovery Substance Sand Metals Introducing Brushes Filing Sawdust

Author:Georges Braque

“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.”

Mean Matter Opportunity Challenges Subjects Style Materials Available Chosen Painter Conventions Restraint Subject Matter

Book:Sense of Sight

Source: Sense of Sight

“There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.”

Mean Doubt Materials Invention No Doubt

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.”

Mean My Own Materials Individuality

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.”

Ifs Men Way Inspirational Mean Motivational Wealth Compassion Path Materials Healthy Prove Claims Various Well Being Liberation Wealthy Compassionate Possessed Material Wealth

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”

Needs Mind Mean Hands Spiritual Humanity Social Television Materials Entertainment Dependent Teamwork Yearning Togetherness Skillful Motion Pictures Gregarious

Author:Walt Disney

“Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.”

Mean Art Ends Spiritual Materials Truth Is Torture Nonsense Application Discovering Barbaric Discovering The Truth

Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.”

Mean Ideas Moments Hands Vision Sun Effects Style Objects Produce Color Materials Perception Impression Desperate Unconscious

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.”

World Wells May Mean Facts Fall Views Moral Doubt Materials Blessing Point Of View Contribution Chips Objectivity Doubting Everything

Author:Aldo Leopold

“The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.”

Mean Might Moral Groups Materials Beats Majority Jew Surrender Ethical Regimes Small Groups Unafraid Hegemony Gentiles Revolving

Author:David Riesman

“A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.”

Mean Children Doe Whole Use Fall Parent Enjoy Share Brother Materials Anxiety Greed Ill Affection Illness Brothers And Sisters Parents Love Enticing

Book:Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

“This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.”

Mean Form Universe Moral Greater Progress Materials Development Evolution Higher

Book:The Life that Really is

Source: The Life that Really is

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