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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. Lupita Nyong'o

Art, Hands, Wrong, Right, Dirt

It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage. Thelma Schoonmaker

People, Think, Long, You, Understand

I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay. Zachary Taylor

Voting, Election, Vote, Privilege, Never

In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.' Anthony Doerr

Work, Light, Walk, Step, Me, You

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. Abraham Lincoln

Slavery, I Can, Question, Views, Express

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. W. E. B. Du Bois

Men, Battle, Eating, Poverty, Long, Edge

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. Daniel Boulud

Love, Freedom, Imagination, Me, Create

Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life. Rithy Panh

Life, Water, Fire, Interesting, Earth

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Martin Luther

Great, God, Me, Generation, Mystery, Him

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. Guy Ritchie

Beautiful, Time, Fishing, Place, Like

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch

Man, Chance, Bricks, Fortune, Left, Then

It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed. David Levering Lewis

Women, Men, American, Early, Steel

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues. Robert Boswell

Change, Grow, Understanding, Creating

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories. Henry Selick

Desire, Special, Barbie, Want, Anything

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. John Burroughs

Country, Marble, England, Chalk, Granite

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. Antoine Rivarol

Great, Sun, Gold, Like, Wax, Souls

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy. Nathan Sawaya

Home, School, Law, Creative, Long, Candy

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. Bret Easton Ellis

Thinking, Things Happen, You, Moments

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman. Chloe Grace Moretz

Woman, Mom, Me, Feel, Look, She

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures. Steven Klein

Morning, Pictures, Go, Own, My Own, Out

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. Abraham Lincoln

Always, Been, Henry

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. Muhammad Iqbal

Walk, Words, I Am, Destiny, Free, Hidden

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots. Kage Baker

Power, Legend, Robots, Dead, Alive, Only

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day. Muhammad Ali

Money, Day, You, Lucky, Will, Never

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. Pericles

Men, Story, Earth, Stone, Only, Over

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. Muhammad Ali

Beautiful, I Am, People, Name, Free, Now

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