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• All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Morning, Simple, Waiting

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• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

  Sue Hubbell

  Years, Stronger, World

  Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  Dave Grohl

  Queens, Gone, Band

  "Dave Grohl: How To Make An Arena Feel Like A Punk Club". Interview with Jacob Ganz, www.npr.org. April 07, 2011.

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• The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

  Laura Miller

  Book, First Love, Love Is

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• I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

  James Wan

  Cameras, Way, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

  Rudolf Steiner

  Home, Men, Intimate Relationships

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• My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

  Piers Morgan

  Beach, Teenage, Son

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• I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

  Steven Price

  Able, Groups, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• [Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Veils, Rooms, Helping

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Kings, Queens, Voice

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

  Robert Hass

  Teacher, Reading, People

  "Poetry Man". Interview with Joan Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 31, 1996.

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• In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.

  Dean Martin

  Order, Feelings, Share

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• The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Breathing, Events

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. But jewelry is worn by a person, so there is a fascination with the history of a piece.

  Simon de Pury

  Wall, Home, Fascination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

  Nick Brandt

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Intimate Relationships, Intimate Relationship With God, Dare

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, Harper Collins

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• Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Eye, Writing, Depth

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• Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Distance, Heart, Self

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• Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.

  Harville Hendrix

  Intimate Relationships, People, Feelings

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• I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Problem, Frank

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• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  William Cowper

  Retirement, Kings, Home

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

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• I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

  I. K. Gujral

  Powerful, Groups, Tables

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• Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Son, Sacrifice

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• You can actually be intimate with the universe.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Smart, Universe

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