#tense

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#dance #intense #intensity #person #such

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#believed #called #desperate #everything #funny

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. ↗

— Randy West

#also #appearance #between #competition #dawn

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#disliked #friends #his #intensely

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#being #being the best #best #dedicated #field

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#along #always #confrontation #create #did

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#confidence #especially #feel #i #influenced

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#i #intense #movies #people #showing

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #beat #between #competing #contests

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold. Their knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars, or some limited judgment of color or form which is exercised for amusement or for show. It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty, as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty #pretense #art