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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
Laura Riding

Love, Passion, Mean

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
Mark Boal

After, Military, National

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
Peter Sotos

Art, Done, Again

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

End, Away, Walk

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.
Deidre Hall

Serious, Guess, Strike

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!
David Krumholtz

Life, Pretty, Perfect

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
Vanilla Ice

Life, Writing, Happen

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.
Paul Reubens

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
Arthur Boyd

Education, Trust, Hope

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
Carmen Kass

Money, Ambition, York

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
David Ives

Love, Family, Whether

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Tilda Swinton

Kindness, Stupidity, Trying

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
Lauren Groff

Life, History, Desire

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.
Melinda Clarke

Training, Used, Action

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
Lorne Michaels

Laugh, Makes, Lion

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

Bad, Sometimes, Relax

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
Jack Nance

Real, Done, Down

I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
Kirk Gibson

Parents, Tell, Worry

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.
Kirk Gibson

Strength, Business, Find

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
Phil Crane

Politics, Good, Long

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.
Dana Torres

After, Short, Keep

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

Drunk, Made, Almost

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.
Clay Guida

Fighter, Consider, Driven

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.
Kyle Gallner

Yourself, Different, Believing

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
Alfred Kastler

Light, Whose, Close

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
Paul Epworth

Funny, Off, Global

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
Pierre Pettigrew

Power, Important, Building

We know that Libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. And there are many courageous Libyans who bear the scars of that battle.
J. Christopher Stevens

Battle, Courageous, Scars

If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense.
Ken Leung

Pretty, Maybe, Full

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