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• I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Fun, Real

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• I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

  Keanu Reeves

  Trying, Partners

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• I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

  Keanu Reeves

  Reading, Firsts, Boards

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• I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

  John C. Reilly

  Feet, Mind, Relief

  "Interview: John C. Reilly talks Cyrus, torrid romance, and musicals". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 29, 2010.

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• During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

  Julia Roberts

  Struggle, Simple, 80s And 90s

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• True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Spiritual, Goal, Aim

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• A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

  Mickey Rourke

  Stuff, Seeing, Edgy

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• Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

  Karl Rove

  People, Life Is, Circumstances

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• It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

  Winona Ryder

  Fall, Interesting, Lap

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• Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Spiritual, Healing

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• I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Matter, Taste

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• Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

  Jerry Saltz

  Culture, Artistic, Possibility

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 25, sect. 298, 1851.

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• My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Church, Royalty, My Family

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• I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Fit, Feels

  "Maria Sharapova on Rick Owens, Cole Haan and Her US Open Style" by Joyann King, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Philosophy, Reality, Materialism

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• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  Patti Smith

  Horse, Kings, Voice

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Couple, Past, People

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Self, Who I Am

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• I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

  George Strait

  Thinking, Singers, Doe

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• I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

  George Strait

  Song, Special, Stuff

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• There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

  Meryl Streep

  Vaccines, Fields, Actresses

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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  John Travolta

  Careers, Luxury, Track

  "Interview: John Travolta" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 15, 2004.

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