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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
I love pairing bright details with simple looks or casual materials like denim or cotton.
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.
For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
I always say, 'If you're planning on seeing our movie, don't look at any more of the materials.'
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.
When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.