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I've been looking for good material, good roles. I really want to produce my own material because I am frustrated by the material I read.

Quote by Armand Assante about good, good luck

The chance a copy machine will brake down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, chance, time

There is much suffering in the world physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the...

Quote by Maica Teresa about suffering, greed, hunger, being, world

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Quote by Czeslaw Milosz about people, human imperfections

A gross and palpable error of the era that is just closing has been the confusion of mechanical and material progress with moral progress.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about progress, confusion, error, moral

It's harder to get stand-alone material published, but it's worth the wait and effort, and then, if you really want to do a Star Trek novel, you can pretty much dictate the terms.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about celebrity, contentment

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

Quote by Sebastian Bach

It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the crude epic material in which he worked should scarcely be heard of.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about nation, value, interest, world

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about destiny, ability, experience, human imperfections, things, man

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things, time

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Quote by Kathy Acker about dream, writing, use, people

It's that music that got you on the map. Then you have to find the right material to keep you there.

Quote by Michael Bolton about music, contentment, rightness

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about film

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Quote by Winston Churchill about prosperity, human imperfections

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Quote by Sean Connery about chance, contentment

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about love, time, contentment

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

Quote by Tom Hanks about contentment

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about food, war, money, man