There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
World’s definition of success material validation of self cold and naked substitute for inner warmth and beauty.
It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.
