Tension Quotes - Page 16

• I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Enough Time, Pressure

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

  George Meyer

  Laughing, Release, Built

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

  Michael Gira

  Children, Sexuality, Friction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

  Mark Kozelek

  Rocks, Musician, Levels

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

  Richard Rodriguez

  School, Fighting, California

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  Bear McCreary

  Horror, Bigs, Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

  Rolonda Watts

  Islands, Grandparent, Forever

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

  John L. Casti

  Hands, Band, Analogies

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Flames, Fans

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

  Katie Aselton

  House, Want, Action

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Two, Growth, Stones

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Ice, Landscape, Want

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Alternatives, Conflict

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Sides, Decree

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

  Mary Schmich

  Turkeys, Done, Norm

  "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

  William Kristol

  Party, Political, Isms

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

  Eliza Hittman

  Brooklyn, Old And New, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

  Raoul Peck

  Class, Identity, World

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan. Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia. And China is not keen that the U.S. should be so close to its borders over a long period of time. Certainly, if the U.S. is going to be there for a long time, it's going to exacerbate regional tensions.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Russia, Iran, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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• America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Israel, America

  Source: genius.com

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• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Winning, Creating, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, People, Development

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give them education, all the tension will end. And this is why, all those who want good for the nation, I request them to compete towards development and for development. This atmosphere should be created in India and I think such an environment is being created nowadays.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Black And White, Long

  Source: www.mott.org

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• My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Reality, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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