Intense Quotes - Page 9

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

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

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.

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.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

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

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.