We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.
It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.
The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.
The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.
