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one of the most athletic roles I've done in my life. The choreography is very athletic, and it's a very intense time.

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

I was flat on my feet and he came out intense right from the beginning.

If we play our game, I like our chances. They're very intense games. We've developed quite a rivalry. We expect quite a battle.

I got to the door and heard crackling, smelled smoke and felt intense heat. I took two to three steps (inside) to meet Annie. I grabbed both of her hands firmly to get her out of the house. I was walking backward and she was walking forward.

I didn't want to do gymnastics at that intense level anymore. I was going through the summer and decided I really didn't want to be there. In high school, I can still do it and love it.

I do not want to think about it. I will answer that tomorrow. It has been a very intense game.

I can feel the intense energy here, but three holes on state land--that's all we're doing right now is three holes, 1,500 to 1,800 feet deep.

I am expecting more improvement. She doesn't have to be back to normal in order for us to release her. We send people home for home physical therapy all the time. But because she needs such intense therapy, we thought we would just keep her here and do it here.

I always wanted to live outside of Australia... because I think it's good to see the world and get out of where you've been living, particularly if you're from somewhere like Australia, which is so isolated from the rest of the world. I chose New York because there was such a great choice of acting classes and it's such an intense place.

I am intense and focused, but at the same time, I am relaxed and just letting the game come to me. Earlier in the season, I was trying to press things and make stuff happen. I was talking to myself in my head the whole game instead of just reacting.

I am very disappointed, but Kentucky played a terrific second half. We must focus on playing better. Every night we have had intense games, and there is no margin of error for this team.

Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you need to endure it. Others are great for after exercising to help you maintain calorie burning, build muscle, and prevent cramping.

Because of the inversion, the heat races will be extremely intense with the fastest drivers in time trials trying to make it to the front to qualify for the night's dash and Saturday's $50,000 to win feature. They'll be like mini feature events.

I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind.

I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

I have spent some of the most intense and best years of my life as president of the club.

I have been nervous for the past six months. This was an intense campaign with a lot at stake. I can finally sleep.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

I feel that the most important thing is for me to continue to work towards being 100 percent healthy. My main priority and responsibility is to the Columbus Blue Jackets and I don't believe participating in the Olympics, which is a short, intense tournament, would be the best thing to do.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

I feel like I got knocked out Day One, ... The difference in a tournament as large as this is that you have to pace yourself. I just tried to play like I was in a side game. You know it's the World Series of Poker, but it's just difficult to stay that intense for seven days.

I didn't have a girlfriend before Charlotte because I was so intense about my rugby but she's brought me out of my shell. I'm lucky to have met her. And we both want to be together for the rest of our lives.

For years, the database has been an extremely vigorous competition between DB2 and Oracle database. The heat has gotten more intense because middleware has been added to the mix.

Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

If a lot of the same people are there and have the same attitudes and habits, it may regress. Once this intense FAA scrutiny passes it may go back to its old habits.

I expect intense pressure on the president from the loyal opposition to nominate as moderate a voice as he can find for the O'Connor replacement.

I don't think Roger ever does anything that's not a max effort and a max concentration. He's not going to go out there and play around. It's just not in his makeup. He's become what he is because he's so intense about what he does (and) prepares for what he does.

From the pilot on, we wanted our sound to be young and hip and contemporary, and we wanted it to underscore the intense emotions being shown on the screen. We like to regard our show as hip and want that reflected in every element you see and hear on the screen.

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

GM has a high degree of confidence in the business despite the volatility in the marketplace and the intense competitive environment, ... GM's inventory levels came down significantly during the first half and are now at appropriate levels.  This should allow us to maintain reasonably stable production rates for the balance of the year.

Global Wireless did another masterful job . . . in the face of intense competition.

Global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.

If it goes up a level from the regular season, it's going to be an unbelievably intense physical battle.

If the intense night sweat is hitting where the material is, it does draw the moisture away.

I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well ... It's very similar to the way my band operates. There are moments of intense violence and there are also moments of long, lyrical, quiet sadness.

He has just lived through the most intense moments of his life. He is still away in his cosmos.

He has intense stamina. This guy is a workaholic and he is at his best when a game is on the line.

He has a player's attitude. He has the same intensity as a player. He's intense on the pool deck and he's intense in the office. We feel it in the huddle.

He has a lot of experience behind his belt, ... He's really intense on the ice. He's always making sure we're working hard.

He helped changed my attitude. He was so intense and so hard on himself. Early on in my career, that wasn't one of my qualities. I think that's why we were such a good mix.

He is a pretty good athlete, a heck of a kid and his expectations are very high. He's very intense and he'd get the most out of his players, that's for sure.

He is an intense man. And he's an artist, and like all the real artists, he doesn't always fit in with normal rules.

He is an intense competitor and he has a knack for making plays, even turning his mistakes into positives. I think he'll get even better as time goes on.

He is, I don't want to say in your face, but you come off (a shift), and either he will, or he'll get one of the assistants, to tell you whether you did something that you shouldn't have or whether you need to go better. I'd say he's a little more intense and more vocal than what we've had here since I've been here.

He hit some big shots. Helped them win. I can imagine what he was going through. It must have been more intense for him, because it happened so suddenly.

He came in here and did a good job. He brings a lot of ability to the field, and he's an intense player.

Today it feels really good, like a relief. It is such an intense meet from top to bottom coming off last week and jumping into the fire this week.

We're probably in the most intense period of reconstruction. We have a lot of facilities around America that have simply reached the end of their useful life.

We're in the middle of this intense competition, and these vendors are looking at all options to differentiate themselves to find a unique competitive advantage.

We are gearing up for very heavy rainfall between midnight and 3 a.m., today. There will be a second storm on New Year's Day, but not as intense as the prior one. We will continue to monitor the river, Napa Creek and its tributaries. The most critical area is the Behrens area. We encourage the public to go ahead with their planned holiday activities, but to keep informed about the weather. Listen to updates and check the city's Web site.

We are facing serious problems with the start of negotiations. We are in intense negotiations,

To ensure that America will remain the center of scientific inquiry and cutting-edge technology, we must find ways to demonstrate America's openness to science, engineering, and technology students even at a time when the competition for those high-achieving students is more intense than ever before.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

He's a challenge to catch. It takes a lot to catch him, because he brings a lot to the table. He throws hard, he's intense and he expects a lot out of his catcher.

Golf has always been a passion for me, ... Football is a very intense sport, and golf is considered a 'gentlemen's game.'

He's always in a very intense mode. He treats every moment like it's a game situation.

He's a very intense guy. He needs to be working on something all the time.

He's a very intense guy, ... But he's very professional, too. You know where you stand with him. He likes to be prepared. If you're not prepared, he'll blame himself. And he prides himself on his team doing the little things and having that strong work ethic.

He's a very quiet kid. He's a confident kid, and he's not cocky at all. He's respectful. He's very intense when he plays ... he just loves to play the game.

He's been given more opportunities and he's taking advantage of that. So it will be exciting for him to go back, but I don't think it means as much as his freshman and sophomore year. I think it's big to him, but it's not like he's not going to sleep before the game or be all intense about it. He wants to win because I think Bam just wants to win.

the pain was so sharp that it made me utter several moans; and so excessive was the sweetness caused me by this intense pain that one can never wish to lose it.

The Pacific seems to be more active than you would see in a normal year. One low-pressure center after another is making its way across the Pacific. These are really intense storms.

The rally is justified. The economy continues to be strong enough to keep corporate earnings growth strong, but not too strong that we'll have any sort of intense inflation worries.

There is an intense effort underway to fix this problem.

He was just so much more intense than everybody else. Lube played football like it was his heart and soul.

He was just so much more intense than everybody else, ... Lube played football like it was his heart and soul.

He was actually delighted that I was still there working that late, ... That was the sort of environment he created. He pushed people reasonably hard, but he balanced that by being a very compelling, almost Moses-like teacher. He knew what he wanted. You're unlikely to ever meet someone who had a more intense and focused mind than Rick.

He is really into football and has an intense intellectual passion for the game. I am really excited about playing for him. I think he is bringing great ideas to the table that can help turn this program around.

Greek week is always an intense competition because they are competing for trophies, but they are mostly competing for bragging rights.

Keys to the game were our pressure defense and our transition offense. We came out really intense and got the game rolling right off the bat.

James Franklin is a bright and accomplished young offensive mind. He is hardworking, intense and creative and clearly fits the mold of what we are looking for here at Kansas State. As important as anything, though, James is a man of integrity and I am very excited to announce his addition to our staff.

It adds to the rivalry but it also brings it back to reality and softens some of the edges to it. Certainly this is an intense rivalry and when you have family involved it brings it back to a sportsmanlike level.

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.

I think it makes the game more interesting for the fans. For the players, absolutely the games become more intense each time. I'd like to see more of it.

It appears that the tape recorder has taken a hit from the intense radiation Galileo passed through. Our efforts to restore the tape recorder may continue for a few weeks.

I think it's going to have even more intense scrutiny than usual from markets.

It certainly made me feel like there were ample stories to tell. It is a different experience than being in high school. All the issues have gotten more intense because the safety net is gone.

It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step.

It is a direct result of the extremely difficult economic situation in Hong Kong and globally, and of intense competition within our industry arising since the implementation of the current regulatory framework.

I think the intense level was a lot higher tonight because it is the playoffs.

I think that his history of mendacity is so intense and so long-lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.

I think the girls came out really intense to win all of our matches in two games. I think the girls are starting to trust each other and play as a team. They played well together and are starting to click a little more.

I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

I thought we did a nice job of keeping our emotions in check. This is an intense rivalry. We played within ourselves.

I thought we played pretty intense in the first game, and the second game was a little more difficult. I was hoping that we could pull through and hopefully not go to three games.

I thought we kind of had it in cruise control once we got up a couple goals. We played OK, but certainly we weren't as intense as I'd like to see us. But, you know, we got the job done.

I think we kept our composure. It was real physical and a real intense game, but we kept our composure, we didn't lose our cool and get frustrated, and we used our team work to keep everybody relaxed. It was the effort of all five people on the court.

I think we were very intense and put a lot of ball pressure on them. Coach wanted us to come out and pressure their guards, make them do things out of duress. That's what we did.

I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we underprepare the people around us, our support system. So when it starts taking up more time than you expect it to, we feel guilty.

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.

I think it's tough for the young guys to really understand what the NIT is all about because nobody really grows up watching the NIT. Unless you've been there and played in it, it's hard to have a feel for how intense it is.

I think it was just our communication. Both of us are pretty intense about racing. We've been together for so long we speak the same language.

I think it's that the same dynamics that go on between any close relationship go on here. It's just particularly intense between mothers and daughters.

It gets so intense when the kids are out there alone in front of the whole crowd. That's what I think makes it the best rivalry. It's a team sport, but each match is one-on-one.

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

It got pretty intense there. It started getting a little heated.

I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.

Lauren has an intense hunger to return to playing Division I basketball. In junior college, she was a team player that focused on her team?s goals first. When we would call to ask about how a game went this year, she was never aware of her own stats, but she knew the score of the game. It was always about her team?s success.