Intense Quotes - Page 12

• While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you don't. If you do, it's intense in what it wants of us.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

  Zach Anner

  Writing, Time Zones, Working Together

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I don't know how people will remember this series [of the Twilight Saga] at all. It's crazy how intense people are.

  Robert Pattinson

  Crazy, Twilight, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.

  Richard A. Falk

  Struggle, Israel, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Understanding, Empathetic, Customers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.

  Joe Rogan

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.

  Steve Almond

  Sports, Football, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The best unpaid sex, where you and the woman are really into each other, and there's a lot of really intense passion, and things are really hot between you...I've never had that kind of sex when I was paying for it. The best unpaid sex is going to be, I think, more passionate and more hot than the best paid sex.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Passion, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The best paid sex can still be really great and really intense, but, you know, without the emotional passion there, it's not going to be quite at the same level as the best unpaid sex.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Passion, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.

  David Frum

  Order, People, President

  "David Frum: 'How Donald Trump Could Build An Autocracy In The U.S.'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 31, 2017.

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• I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Novel, I Can

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocumented people. Trump has just taken that policy and ratcheted it up several notches. He's made it much more intense. We've had situations where people who would have been covered by the Obama administration, people who had been promised a path toward legal residency, had that taken away. I did not imagine that. I could never have imagined that happening.

  Hector Tobar

  Taken, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Only thoughts of God and intense love for Him bring peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Intense Love

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• I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

  Alison Bechdel

  Humorous, Responsibility, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

  Reed Hastings

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

  David LaChapelle

  War, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and everything when they're not working. Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it. If your focus is there, then the actual doing of the job will be fun and enjoyable. But if you're so involved in trying to be interesting and a character and everything when you're not working, it can get in the way and people get goofed up.

  Beau Bridges

  Jobs, Fun, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.

  James Lasdun

  Character, Interesting, Wicked

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.

  James Lasdun

  Writing, Character, Roots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.

  Albert Serra

  Real, Men, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

  Elia Suleiman

  Humanity, World, Known

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them. And that's one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories. I also think that we place such intense emphasis on award shows when they're not necessarily the best reflection of how good the work is. We need to realize that art and creation are so much bigger than an award or any measure of accomplishment.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Art, Character, Reflection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Making movies is a lot like being a construction worker. There are long intense stretches of work followed by nothing. It's not easy to find work, and in between, you have to figure out what to do for money.

  Robert Schenkkan

  Long, Construction, Easy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

  Billy Crudup

  Opinion, Kind, Next Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

  Chip Pitts

  Responsibility, Past, October

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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