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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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• To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

  Alex Grey

  Fate, Offering, Appreciate

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• I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

  Grimes

  Desire, Way, Feels

  "Grimes of the Heart". Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

  Lev Grossman

  Way, Tribes, East

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• Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

  Geri Halliwell

  Singers, Becoming, Solo

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• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  Alan Hansen

  Congratulations, Rewards, Pressure

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• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

  Keith Henson

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Desire, Different

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Depression, Beautiful, Confusing

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• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  Vanilla Ice

  Shining, Black, Stuff

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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• My job is intense. It's very physical.

  Joan Jett

  Jobs

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• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Crazy, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Mar 01, 2016

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• The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Pain

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• It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

  Jay-Z

  Men, Fire, Ice Cream

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• In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Funny, Book, People

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• I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Different, Way

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• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Eight, Seven Months, Seven Days

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

  Queen Latifah

  Sleep, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Talking, Gregarious

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage

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• I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Fans, Novel

  "George R. R. Martin talks 'Game of Thrones' as the HBO show's 'Daenerys' departs". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2010.

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  Danica McKellar

  Jobs, Math, Media

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• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Commitment, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Cost

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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  For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

  Joan Miro

  Secret, Cigarette, Boxes

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