I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you have the camera and now it's all about adaptation and what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another so the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material and yet not be afraid to step out of it and add elements to make it satisfying cinematically.
Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.
I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. . . . You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food. . . The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.
I wanted to be a part of an ensemble cast. It's such a wonderful, beautiful thing to be in a comedy where you're working and watching amazing actors, working with amazing material, and you're able to jump in and bounce off it.
I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.
When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.