Materials Quotes - Page 10

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The material dictates the approach.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

Everything means something.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.