"It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue."
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"Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom."
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"In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life"
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"I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material."
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"I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it."
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"What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?"
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"Marriages are best made of dissimilar material."
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"The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me."
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"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."
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"Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence."
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"As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production."
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"I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material."
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"The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself."
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"The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself."
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"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
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"Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows."
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"Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself."
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"Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material."
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