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The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
— Robert McKee
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory.
— Barbara Oakley
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
— Edward Carpenter
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
— Karl Radek
I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.
— Tom McCarthy
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene H. Peterson
To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward
— Sunday Adelaja
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
— William Faulkner
It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
— David Chipperfield
I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.
— Drew Curtis
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— Hippolyte Taine
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
— Graeme Souness
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
— George A. Sheehan
Yet comprehension does not imply belief. Nor does it mean that those who purvey such beliefs do so for more than ... material
gain. — Christopher Paolini
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
— Kevin Spacey
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
— Boris Spassky
Material things should complement a good life, not be used as indicators of a good life.
— Joan Ambu
The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
— J.J. Abrams
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
— Nicki Minaj
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
— Asa Butterfield
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
— Bruno Dumont
If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.
— Maddy Malhotra
Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.
— Victoria Moran
My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.
— Daniel Smith
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
I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
— Anthony Kiedis
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.
— Donnie Wahlberg
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
— William S. Burroughs
It's not pain. It's raw material.
— Jo Bell
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
— Martin Short
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
— James Russell Lowell
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
— Laura Benanti
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
— Meryl Streep
He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered.
— Katherine Lampe
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
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
— Radhanath Swami
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
— Kenneth Lay
Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material.
— Kim Addonizio
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
— Bryan Cranston
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.
— Lawrence B. Lindsey
We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
— Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
— Naomi Wolf
(More radioactive material fell on Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a result of Chernobyl than from Three Mile Island.)
— William Tucker
Dream, because dreams are the material that constructs reality.
— Javier Garcia Pulido
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
— Martha Beck
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
— Anne Sullivan
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
— Frederick William Robertson
When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said.
— Leander Kahney
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
— Deepak Chopra
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
— Dan Shechtman
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
— Wallace Stegner
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
— Luke Rhinehart
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
— John Maynard Keynes
Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
— Richard M. Nixon
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
— Miriam Toews
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
— Walead Beshty
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
— Beatrix Potter
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.
— Lawren Harris
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.
— Charles Frazier
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Mature material. Where once he had hollered through
— Rick Bragg
For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.
— Richard Crossman
