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• My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

  Alanis Morissette

  Intense Emotions, Down And, Deals

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• I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Nuts, People

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• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it’s just an extension of childhood play… Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don’t need any director telling them “You really have to believe in it.” They believe in it completely.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fashion, Believe, Kids

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

  Robert De Niro

  Character, Needs, Mama

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• 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.

  Apolo Ohno

  Beach, Workout, Intense Training

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• I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Character, Thinking, Fairs

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• The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

  William Perry

  Sports, Bragging Rights, America

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• For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

  Joaquin Phoenix

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• You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Men, Two

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• Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Years

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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• In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

  Dave Ramsey

  Passion, Order, Looks

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• Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

  John C. Reilly

  Hollywood, Months, Workplace

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Band, Stuff

  "Henry Rollins: 'I get angry about stuff'". Interview with David E. Williams, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Pressure, Sanity

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

  Robert W. Service

  Criticism, France, Neighbor

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• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Song, Moving, Soul

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• When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

  Robert Smith

  Real, World, Stage

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• The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

  Stendhal

  Passion, Race, Argument

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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Artist, Oxygen

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

  Barbra Streisand

  Growing Up, Growing, Furniture

  Barbra Streisand (2010). “My Passion for Design”, p.23, Penguin

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• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  Taylor Swift

  Struggle, Writing, My Own

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• Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Real, Home

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• Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

  Harry S. Truman

  Truth, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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