A Quote by Mavis Staples

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

Mavis Staples

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Mavis Staples
American - Musician
Born: July 10, 1939

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Henri Nouwen

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful.

Rajneesh

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

Harriet Lerner

I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.

Tycho

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Vicente Fox

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Judith Viorst

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Sissela Bok

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Peter Breggin

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Pearce

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

Gerald Stern

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

Adam Duritz

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

Cathy Kelly

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Max Delbruck

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

Peter Stone

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

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