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.
Kathy Acker

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
Steve Buscemi

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.
Billy Sherwood

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
Jimmy Connors

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.
F. Murray Abraham

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
Wynton Marsalis

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
Kate Clinton

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
Kate Clinton

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
Frank Auerbach

I do like directing other people's material.
Brian De Palma

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Rebecca West

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Jerry Stiller

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.
George Thorogood

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
Roger Andrew Taylor

The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.
Kathy Valentine

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
Auberon Herbert