Intense Quotes - Page 15

• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

  James Fox

  Self, Practice, Trying

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• That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying.

  Mark Deklin

  Our Family, Feels, Overpowering

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

  Karch Kiraly

  Dad, Men, Talking

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

  Rumi Neely

  Lines, Lucky, Response

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

  Vera Nazarian

  Too Much, Firsts, Intimate

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Self, Creative

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

  Patanjali

  Effort, Sincere

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• There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

  Pamela Adlon

  Boys, Years, Cameras

  "‘Better Things’ star Pamela Adlon on child acting, androgyny, and Bobby Hill". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. August 9, 2016.

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• The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Meaningful, Creating, Attention

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

  Zoe Leonard

  People, Matter, Pressure

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

  Emma Donoghue

  Myopic, Palette

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.

  Micah Perks

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

  "Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.

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• [Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

  Chase Utley

  Fun, Play, Competitors

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• [Formula One racing looking after Jackie Stewart in 1968] was not so intense and, yes, it was much more dangerous - what was definitely different back then was the level of safety.

  Martin Sorrell

  Safety, Racing, Different

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough about life to know in those dark moments inevitably someone will say something funny and I will be part of the whole experience.

  Edward Zwick

  Mean, Dark, Serious

  Source: screenrant.com

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• [Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.

  Greg Mottola

  Sweet, Scary, Gals

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

  Henry Giroux

  Needs, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

  Henry Giroux

  Principles, Needs, Moral

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, Trying, Knows

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

  Alanis Morissette

  Intense Emotions, Down And, Deals

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• He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Blue

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, 2005.

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• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Play, Joy

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• Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

  Joel Garreau

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Leader

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