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You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
— Frank McCourt
Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton?
— Steve Toltz
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
— Chiang Kai-shek
I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
— Jackee Harry
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
— Francis Bacon
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
— Susan Glaspell
A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.
— Alain De Botton
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
— Carlton Cuse
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene H. Peterson
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.
— Mary Roach
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
— Matt LeBlanc
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
— Nancy Sinatra
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
— Bobby Fischer
How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Material things should complement a good life, not be used as indicators of a good life.
— Joan Ambu
If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.
— James L. Cambias
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
— Holt McCallany
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
— Christian Marclay
I like going after good material, well-written material.
— Sam Underwood
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
— Denzel Washington
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
— Charles Clark
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
— Dan Fogelberg
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.
— Robert Evans
I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.
— Troy Donahue
Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love.
— Vicki Myron Y Bret Witter
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
— Tom Skerritt
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
— Deborah Harkness
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
— Stephen Frears
I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.
— Christina Hendricks
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
— Laurie Holden
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
— Ashly Lorenzana
I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.
— Tom Rush
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
— Rudolf Arnheim
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,
— Eric Mazur
Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.
— Howard Stern
If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.
— Freddie Stroma
I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
— George Strait
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
— Amanda Harlech
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
— Javier Bardem
Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
— Justin Kirk
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
— Billy Joel
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
— Neil Gaiman
Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
— John Goodman
I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
— Robert Sternberg
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
— John Oates
I'm really not good blackmail material.
— Chris Colfer