Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they’re ashamed of.
‘The Luminaries’ is such a different book to ‘The Rehearsal.’ There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there’s a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there’s patterning.
In a film, there are dramatic moments and a bunch of different moments that lead up to a dramatic moment. On some songs, I try to paint the picture of before that drama happens, so by the time you get to the end of the project you’ve experienced infatuation and intimacy before it dives off to drama.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
I always thought that if you don’t feel the breath in the actors’ bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God’s eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God’s timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don’t see that same intimacy happening very much today.
I don’t have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
I would never say that claiming you’re a Christian is wrong. I understand that there is a human aspect of being able to identify people whether it’s African American, Hispanic or Asian. But the definition doesn’t define the relationship, meaning you can be married and still not know intimacy.
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it’s over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
I think when you’re looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.
That’s the power of television. You come into people’s homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
I love intimacy, always, of performing.
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there’s also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It’s a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.
I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.
Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.
You can relate to somebody’s pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is about you, your family and friends. Food becomes an aspect of those relationships as well as your intimacy with your plot.
Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy – but that’s artificial.
I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you’re having the most quiet, intimate conversation you’ve ever had with someone you love. If I can get that tone of intimacy, then the film will have that.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.
When I’m dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.
Sex isn’t hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind – there’s such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract.
I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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 started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn’t it? I love it. I never thought I would.
I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there’s something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
There’s some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn’t exist in machine experiences.
Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it’s getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.
I try to stay away from forced intimacy.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there’s an intimacy that you get that’s very different when you’re doing drama.
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.
Humans need intimacy. We’ve destroyed it in our country.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common – a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That’s why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
