Intensity Quotes - Page 25

• I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.

  Oren Moverman

  Book, Home, Character

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anything high impact, it's probably not smart for me to do.

  Prince Fielder

  Basketball, Running, Smart

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Greek, Ark

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

  C.D. Wright

  Death, Expression, Poetry

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

  Bob Harper

  Movement, Crossfit, Type

  "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin

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• As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

  William Matthews

  Fire, Quality, Frost

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• Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

  Louise Bogan

  Hate, Choices, Joy

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Doors, Space

  Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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  You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

  Jimmy Page

  Spontaneity, Moments, Mood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Intense, Hours, Dreamy

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Philosophy, Paris

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Emotional, Language, Weak

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.92, Bantam

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.

  Ellen Goodman

  Friday, Father, Writing

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

  Harriet Lerner

  Two, Intimacy

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Struggle, Luxury

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

  Gene Tierney

  Flames

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Sex, Men

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

  Maya Deren

  Fire, Flames, Break Through

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