Intimate Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave enough to love you back. Your relieving yourself of your 'secret' is as much about wanting to honestly connect as it is about exhibition. We are all made better by your decision to share publicly.

  Jay-Z

  Falling In Love, Love You, Decision

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• To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

  Anne Michaels

  Hiding, Psychological, Share

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

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• My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

  Paul Kane

  Secret, Honest, Sometimes

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• In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every now and then we'd meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I'd seen something like that. "The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully."

  Gillian Anderson

  Character, Intimate Moments, Together

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Mistake, Would Be

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

  Patrice Leconte

  Able, Taste, Comedy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

  Franz Liszt

  Dream, Piano, Joy

  Franz Liszt, Charles Suttoni (1989). “An Artist's Journey: Lettres D'un Bachelier Es Musique, 1835-1841”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Organization, Growth

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• I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Men, Quality, Educated

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• The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Faithful, Unity

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• I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Father, Drama, Son

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Self, Internet

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.

  Cate Shortland

  War, Intimate Relationships, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

  Antoine D'Agata

  Intimate Relationships, Important, Looks

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• A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Couple, Believe, Touching You

  Jennifer Ashley (2011). “The Many Sins of Lord Cameron”, p.220, Penguin

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• Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

  Gwendoline Riley

  Credo

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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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• Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Feelings, Attire, Thoughts And Feelings

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

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• I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Important, Storytelling

  "8 Questions with Doug Benson". Interview with French Davis, yellowscene.com. August 19, 2011.

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