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“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)”

Made Matter Problem Natural Subjects Television Entertainment Entertaining Representation Subject Matter Format

Author:Neil Postman

“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.”

“We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)”

People World Matter Stories Faces Subjects Century Silent Genocide Quarters Depressing Subject Matter

Book:Night

Source: Night

“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”

Knows Matter Stories Problem Seems Able Subjects Goes On Please Jokes Witty Occasions Depressing Complaints Transcendence Subject Matter Resolute Upbeat

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.”

Matter Seems Subjects Industry Towns Los Angeles Facility Disadvantages Subject Matter Personnel

Author:Carter Burwell

“I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you must write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Matter Enough Would Be Subjects Compelled Neat Subject Matter Letting You Go Aspiring Writers

Author:Rick Riordan

“You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.”

Needs Mean Said Matter Body Jobs Levels Subjects Higher Angel Your Body Description Guardian Subject Matter Hush Guardian Angel His Smile Patch And Nora Hush Hush Exactly Is

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“A woman is subject matter enough.”

Matter Enough Subjects Subject Matter

Author:Claude Chabrol

“If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.”

Ifs Should Years Matter States Enough Peace Subjects Wall Intelligent University Twelve Laboratory Subject Matter Ubuntu

Author:Margaret Mead

“I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.”

Humans Art Matter Facts Beautiful Faces Form Sports Subjects Figures Athlete Dues Subject Matter Human Form Beautiful Art

Author:Frank Bruno

“Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.”

World Mean Matter Whole Emotion Vision Seeing Subjects Awareness Intellect Senses Labels Awe Remarkable Discovering Finest Subject Matter

Book:Photography and the art of seeing

Source: Photography and the art of seeing

“The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.”

Important Matter Philosophy Literature Subjects Students Educational Subject Matter

Book:Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education

Source: Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education

“The workmanship was better than the subject matter.”

Matter Subjects Latin Subject Matter Workmanship

Author:Ovid

“The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.”

Matter Stories Seems Numbers Subjects Travel Surface Funny Travel Subject Matter

Author:Kenneth Koch

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.”

Art Matter Sound Subjects Color Painting Music Is Sight Harmony Subject Matter Painting And Poetry

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.”

People Thinking Matter Romance Political Subjects Horror Faults Obsession Obsessed Subject Matter Paranoia

Author:Adam Arkin

“Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.”

Mind Has Beens Matter Science Natural Common Education Subjects Mankind Communication Habit Accounts Common Sense Construction Subject Matter Outrun Habits Of Mind

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.”

Matter Science Known Subjects Theory Development Models Concepts Function Collections Considering Formal Extensions Hypothesis Subject Matter Analogies Suggesting

Author:Mary Hesse

“The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.”

Ifs World Matter Subjects Eternal Logic Mathematics Independent Mathematical Propositions Subject Matter Validity

Book:The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science

Source: The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science

“...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.”

Ifs Matter Running Action Fiction Risk Subjects Concepts Philosophical Analysis Subject Matter

Author:Alfred Mele

“... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.”

Matter Action Three Courses Belief Leadership Ability Inspiring Subjects Particular Empowering Mastery Components Subject Matter Correctness Fervent

Author:Ninian Stephen

“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.”

Thinking Writing Matter Age Attitude Knowing Subjects Emotional Development Determined Motive Subject Matter Knowing Something

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.”

Men Way Matter Young Lines Subjects Young Man Spokes Personal Life Subject Matter Yeats

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [...] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world... that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Persons Matter Shows Interesting Views Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Point Of View You Choose Subject Matter

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.”

Matter Vision Subjects Fit Photography Photographer Patterns Following Composition Repetition Cliche Subject Matter Tedious Freshness Pictorial Following Rules

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.”

Firsts Matter Saws Subjects Lessons Photography Cameras Forgotten Clubs Speakers Composition Lectures Subject Matter Upside Down Disregard

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.”

Way Trying Mean Matter Form Subjects Color Photography Oneself New Ways Subject Matter Absorption

Author:Cole Weston

“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”

“In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.”

Thinking Doe Matter Practice Issues Subjects Photography Concern Philosophical Photographer Photograph Subject Matter

Author:John Szarkowski

“Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.”

Mind Matter Courses Individual Study Teacher Teaching Subjects Method Etc Quarters Subject Matter Pupils Textbooks Supervisors Dictation

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.”

Want Persons Matter Reason Jesus Names Lord Grace Subjects Theology Doctrine Abundance Subject Matter

Author:Joseph Prince

“It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.”

“I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.”

Thinking Matter Subjects Exploration Stamps Subject Matter

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States”

Matter States Done Shows Past Three Subjects Three Times Taboo Subject Matter

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.”

Should Sometimes Matter Film Interest Deals Subjects Industry Should Have Bases Independent Filmmaker Subject Matter Independent Film Film Industry

Author:John Hurt

“I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.”

Ifs Knows Long Important Matter Used Three Hours Happened Minutes Subjects Used To Be Epic Subject Matter

Author:Ethan Hawke

“There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act”

People Thinking Want Matter Bigs Might Actors Roles Subjects Agency Want Me Strain Subject Matter

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.”

Thinking Want I Can Matter Hard Film Term Violence Subjects Right Now Adults Historical Hitting Graphic Subject Matter

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.”

Way Kind Matter Shows Certain Given Acting Virtue Subjects Handle Public Service Subject Matter Advocating Announcers

Author:Christopher Meloni

“When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.”

Wells Matter Happens Age Quality Taken Risk Subjects Filmmaker Subject Matter Parachutes

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.”

Want Important Matter Values Process Difficult Term Subjects Scene Elements Capacity Tools Tasks Cameras Photographer Photograph Manage Print Translate Subject Matter Difficult Tasks

Author:Edward Weston

“Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.”

Matter Games Process Subjects Fields Communication Discipline Transformation Theater Participation Subject Matter

Author:Viola Spolin

“We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.”

Matter Subjects Tragic Crucial Timeless Subject Matter

Book:Writings on Art

Source: Writings on Art

“There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations”

Matter Subjects Manifestation Subject Matter

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.”

Writing Book Matter Subjects Exercise Obvious Profession Subject Matter Drawbacks

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.”

Knows Years Wells Mean Said Matter Would Be America Fighting Passion Interest Family Knowing Subjects Angry Spending Stuck Lifestyle Live Life My Time Acceptable Subject Matter

Author:Martha Stewart

“The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.”

Thinking Matter Subjects Palestinian Tricky Subject Matter Assassination Turning Points Massacres Squad Munich

Author:Daniel Craig

“There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.”

Ifs Matter Difficult Subjects Photography Tasks Photographer Subject Matter Rapport

Author:Bruce Barnbaum

“I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.”

Thinking Knows Important Matter Reality Truth Subjects Directors Majors Scripts Subject Matter

Author:Robert Wise

“We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.”

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