Intense Quotes - Page 9

• For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

  Chad Harbach

  Writing, Two, Three

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Team, Writing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

  Penn Dayton Badgley

  Men, Feelings, Attention

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Wells, Seasons

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
  near them, waiting.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Meditation, Waiting

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• You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

  Nick Carroll

  Sports, Ocean, Landscape

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• I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

  Margaret Cho

  Phones, Numbers, Email

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Moving, Recovery, Mean

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Slow Down, Rate

  "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

  Denis Leary

  Credibility, Needed Someone, Theatrical

  "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: Denis Leary on Season 2's Hamilton Parody". Interview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. June 29, 2016.

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• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

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• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Simple, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

  Tyler Blackburn

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Wonderful, Great Things, Factors

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• Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.

  Gilberto Gil

  Real, Struggle, America

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• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

  James Fox

  Self, Practice, Trying

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• My training centered on aerobic development, meaning I'd swim longer with less intensity during the majority of my practices. As I got older, I began more weight training, and my workouts went from long at a lower intensity to shorter and more intense.

  Amanda Beard

  Workout, Practice, Long

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying.

  Mark Deklin

  Our Family, Feels, Overpowering

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

  Karch Kiraly

  Dad, Men, Talking

  Source: www.stack.com

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• You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

  Natalie Portman

  Bullying, Media, Negativity

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

  Clea DuVall

  Dream, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

  Rumi Neely

  Lines, Lucky, Response

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

  Vera Nazarian

  Too Much, Firsts, Intimate

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play is a great deal more alive for me than what passes for reality. I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. The involvement is terribly intense.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, Reality

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Self, Creative

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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