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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. ↗

— David Oyelowo

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Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element. ↗

— David Blunkett

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So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. ↗

— Helen Clark

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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

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Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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