#tense

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had

I've always put myself intensely into my work. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#i #intensely #into #myself #put

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect. ↗

— Al Pacino

#achieve #become #bloody #character #confident

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. ↗

— John Tillotson

#crafty #danger #dark #person #pretenses

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#even #future #job #like #money

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #art #comics #critical #entirely

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. ↗

— Charles Eames

#away #best #carefully #change #change the world

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#i #i love #intense #losing #love