Intense Quotes - Page 38

• Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Artist, Curiosity, Found

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• Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Delight, Pages

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• The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

  Max Planck

  Art, Creative, Atheism

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• I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Inception - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

  Kristen Bell

  Fighting, Thinking, Voice

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey from the Small Screen to Theatres, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.

  Paul Giamatti

  Mom, Holiday, Son

  Source: collider.com

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• A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

  Andrew Whitworth

  Football, Yoga, Practice

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Contemplative Life, Hands

  "Junot Díaz: a life in books" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

  Frank Grillo

  Emotional, Reality, Facts

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• People always ask me if Im nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesnt seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  Magda Apanowicz

  People, Scary, Fans

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• The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Sacrifice, Class, Dancing

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

  Willa Cather

  Running, Silence, Emptiness

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Passion, Exercise

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color.

  Mark Ryden

  Life, Powerful, Reality

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dew, Green, Might

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Frost, Kind, Poet

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.185

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• I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

  May Sarton

  Passion, Thinking, Two

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

  Albert Camus

  Feelings, May, Cases

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• No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friendship, Girl, Hatred

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.231

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• Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Motherhood, Identity

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Alcohol, Heaven, Selfishness

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.303

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Believe, Loss

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• ... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me -- usually, always, my most intense lessons -- the ones my soul came here to learn.

  Melody Beattie

  Soul, Different, Lessons

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