Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.
Gazing into his eyes, I was lost in their intensity. It was like looking into the bluest sky and carrying on to infinity. I felt mesmerised, hypnotised and transfixed all at once.
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.
Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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.
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.
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.
I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.
