Intense Quotes

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I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs… — Juliana Hatfield
I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood… — Edward Abbey
[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mÃ©lange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for… — Robert Klein
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why… — Robin Williams
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker. — Evelyn Waugh
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. — Gail Godwin
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex… — Iris Murdoch
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. — Richard Leakey
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film.… — Julia Leigh
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is… — Meghan O'Rourke
Under the skin, intense fires burn. — Charles de Lint
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was… — Candace Parker
Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking… — Sarah Polley
I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out… — David O. Russell
My work life is intense. But I love what I do. — David Rubenstein
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious… — Bertrand Russell
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. — Peter Sotos

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