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• [The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do.

  Mickey Rourke

  Christian, Thinking, Guy

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• One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.

  Michael Sucsy

  Fighting, Editors, Creative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

  George Nolfi

  Real, People, Dancing

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Trying, Way

  "Robert Rodriguez and Showrunner Carlos Coto on ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2015.

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• If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Facts, Comedy

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Golf

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• I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

  Patti Smith

  Energy, Rooms, Feels

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

  Ai Weiwei

  Bridges, Injustice, Victim

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it.

  Lewis Hyde

  Spiritual, Teacher, Leader

  Interview with Akshay Ahuja, logger.believermag.com. January 9, 2015.

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• For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Meaningful, Order, World

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Explosives

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• Unless you seek out help for your symptoms, you'll never really know that that's not how everyone feels. You go through life thinking that this is how you feel in certain situations and that I can ease the tensions by doing this or that.

  Matty Mullins

  Thinking, Ease, How You Feel

  Source: www.theshowlastnight.com

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• With the high stress of life many people find that their mind is constantly racing. They cannot stop from thinking even during time away from work or school, when they'd like to be relaxing. Subsequently, they may also feel associated physical tension in their bodies. In this case, the mind and the body are very closely connected to the stress response.

  Tim McCarthy

  Stress, School, Thinking

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• If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Gay, Interesting, Unity

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

  Joo Won

  Want, Protect, Squabbles

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.

  Paul Rankin

  Running, Swimming, Cycling

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, People, Giving

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Creative, Leaving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Growth, Violence

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• In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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• The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

  John Howard

  Wrestling, Reality, Self

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