Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
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.
I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.
