I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.
Everyone knows that Theodore Roosevelt was able to wring so much life out of each day, every hour, every minute. And yet, when one is immersed in a detailed, retrospective review of his life, his intense living, his vigor di vita, is nonetheless breathtaking.
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.
Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.
As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
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.
I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.
I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.