"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

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"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

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"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

Catherine Keener, American Actress

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"The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear."

Art Modell, American Businessman

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"The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

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"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."

Robert Klein, American Comedian

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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film."

Michael Apted, British Director

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"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer

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"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

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"So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody."

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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

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Paris

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

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"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer."

Time

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

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"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."

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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."

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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

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"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."

Power