Intimacy Quotes - Page 21

• I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

  Chelsea Martin

  Thinking, People, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

  Leigh Newman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Years, Want

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.147, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Narrators, Vices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Gossip

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

  Gary LeVox

  Thinking, Energy, Littles

  "Rascal Flatts Talk Las Vegas Residency & Tour With Kelsea Ballerini". Interview With Chuck Dauphin, www.billboard.com. February 2, 2016.

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• If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

  George Saunders

  Respectful, Reader, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

  Scott Aukerman

  Cds, Records, Firsts

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."

  Scott Aukerman

  Book, Space, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• : But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

  B. J. Porter

  Thinking, Cds, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Cities, Creating, Guarantees

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.

  Sue Tompkins

  Important, Trying, Joining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.

  Karen Mason

  Space, Challenges, Pieces

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Mean, Boys

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

  Hortense Calisher

  Family, Lines

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media

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• There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

  Mavis Staples

  People, Feelings, Venues

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Kissing, Men, Good Things

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Awkward, Cameras

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• Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

  Harriet Lerner

  Two, Intensity

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Baby, Sex

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Self, Effort, Strange

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