#heightened

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. ↗

— Gary Ross

#heightened #i #i think #instrument #reality

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#culture #everything #explain #frenzy #heightened

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#barrel #between #dollars #heightened #oil

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#generosity #heightened #often #other #performance

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#being #challenges #emotions #especially #film

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#awareness #because #completely #down #everything