#material

I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#around #audition #creatively #excited #feeling

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#good #had #i #knew #knowledgeable

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#clubs #college #comedy #enough #entertainer

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed. ↗

— William Friedkin

#cannot #extremely #grow #important #material

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. ↗

— Edwin Land

#materials #problem #room #solved #using

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them. ↗

— James Laughlin

#authors #because #come #correspondence #firm

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#conquest #convinced #could #improve #material

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#been #billion #chemical #earth #enable

In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent design. Even though writers like Michael Behe and Stephen C. Meyer are motivated at least in part by their religious beliefs, the empirical arguments they offer against the likelihood that the origin of life and its evolutionary history can be fully explained by physics and chemistry are of great interest in themselves. Another skeptic, David Berlinski, has brought out these problems vividly without reference to the design inference. Even if one is not drawn to the alternative of an explanation by the actions of a designer, the problems that these iconoclasts pose for the orthodox scientific consensus should be taken seriously. They do not deserve the scorn with which they are commonly met. It is manifestly unfair. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#evolution #id #intelligent-design #macroevolution #materialism