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Hope is the raw material of losers. -- Fernando Flores
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. -- Branch Rickey
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. -- Viggo Mortensen
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. -- Miriam Toews
Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms. -- Theaster Gates
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. -- William S. Burroughs
The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design. -- Jonathan Schell
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration. -- Jonathan Dee
The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel. -- Baba Kalyani
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. -- Ben Okri
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. -- Deepak Chopra
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need. -- Aasif Mandvi
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. -- Christopher Hitchens
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know. -- Willem Dafoe
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. -- Chaim Potok
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form. -- Irving Stone
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. -- William Ernest Henley
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it. -- Michael Chabon
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -- Carl Jung
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. -- Hjalmar Schacht
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. -- Jose Saramago
God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material. -- Matt Chandler
Time is the explicable raw material of everything. -- Arnold Bennett
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. -- Craig Mundie
Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships. -- Alexis Tsipras
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. -- Dorothy Richardson
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. -- Francine Prose
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. -- P. D. James
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. -- Maxim Gorky
Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up. -- Helen Gurley Brown
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. -- Ambrose Bierce
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. -- Mickey Rourke
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. -- Thomas Carlyle
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. -- Aldo Leopold
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. -- Peter F. Hamilton
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others. -- Timothy Keller
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe. -- Kenneth Copeland
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. -- Lawrence Durrell
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life -- Fernand Leger
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. -- Lawrence Durrell
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. -- Petra Kelly
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. -- Michael Cunningham
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices. -- Benjamin Graham
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. -- Frank Herbert
The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. -- Paulo Coelho
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny. -- Bryant H. McGill
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. -- Sybille Bedford
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. -- Bruce Chatwin
Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill -- Theodore Levitt
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. -- Martha Beck
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. -- Geoffrey Madan
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. -- Eric Hoffer
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas. -- Terence McKenna
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted. -- Rudolf Arnheim
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions. -- Imre KertÃ©sz
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself. -- Warren G. Bennis
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle. -- C. S. Lewis
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. -- Neil Gaiman
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task. -- G. H. Hardy
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. -- Twyla Tharp
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. -- Sylvia Plath
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness. -- Steven Furtick
Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening. -- Edith Wharton
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell! -- Charles Spurgeon
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. -- Arnold Bennett
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness. -- Albert Einstein

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