Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.
I think that’s a really important part of a marriage, to be intimate with your partner.
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
I had a lot of inhibitions where I was not comfortable doing intimate scenes.
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.
Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with theater, it’s like an experience. You have to be there that one special night that was like that to see that one performance that was really remarkable. It’s more intimate as well. So I like them both.
I don’t necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can’t just be about consumption.
Music spoke to me when I was young in such an intimate, empowering, magical way, and I think that music is already doing that for young queer kids.
‘The Oath’ seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like ‘Everest.’ I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
Television itself is an intimate medium. It’s in your house. You’re visiting with these people… Not everybody’s going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that’s life – especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it’s not going to work. It’s not going to be romantic, and it’s probably going to be one-sided.
Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did ‘Young Adam’, for instance, I’d come out of ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘The Island’, and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then ‘Young Adam’ cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
For my part, I like live theater best when it’s taut, concentrated and intimate.
‘Intimate Apparel’ is a lyrical meditation on one woman’s loneliness and desire. ‘Fabulation’ is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
The casinos are always packed and a little more intimate… We have a lot of fun playing those and we plan to bring all the craziness that we do. And I gotta tell you, they pay really well.
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I’m writing. For ‘Intimate Apparel,’ I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.
Even two of humanity’s most intimate possessions – a sense of self and a body image – are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain’s mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second’s notice.
TV’s a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.
Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can’t overstate how how precious that feels – it’s as though you’re having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.
My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them.
I refused ‘Chatuskone,’ as I was required to wear revealing outfits and enact a few intimate scenes, which I was not comfortable with.
The history of fiction is about family – an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations – inside the family.
I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you’ve got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they’re playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
It’s a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there’s a lot of trust involved.
My writing, it’s mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn’t be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don’t have too many secrets. I’m a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
I like cosy, intimate houses.
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
Faith is caused by an encounter with something very real but which has extraordinary qualities which intimate the divine; the belief is due to an encounter which specially mirrors some divine quality.
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain ‘essences of Dad.’
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That’s what I like the most.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.
We want it to be sunny. Something small and intimate because my work is so public. That would be good for me, but my partner wants to have a big wedding.
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there’s a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn’t understand that you don’t get another take ever. I’m finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
It’s hard to get intimate with an audience.
There’s something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.
