#material

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#basic #cannot #comfort #life #many

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#material #mirrors #perfect #seemed #stand

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? ↗

— Billy Joel

#could #good #how #i #material

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#found #his #man #materials #now

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#comedy #darker #drawn #get #i