Intense Quotes

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.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

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.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

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.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

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

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

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

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.