“Intimacy requires a slow, cumulative build of safety between people who agree to a relationship, an ongoing connection of care and concern.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“See, it was never really about getting a kiss; it was always about sharing a moment of intimacy with another person. To… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of… — Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes Copy Share Image
The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
“This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Every time that you do a play or a show of any kind, really you have this family that you really build… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
“Beware those who stand nearest, for they see both your strengths and your scars. The hand that offers comfort can just as… — Pierre Lagrenat Copy Share Image
I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He would never know know her. Such intimacy but no communication, because words - even if she could speak or write them… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world… — Pamela Taeuffer Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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