Tension Quotes - Page 37

• The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

  Robert Mitchum

  Marijuana, Smoking, Boisterous

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• In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and accumulated tension in your body. Although sometimes these walls of protection are useful, they can, over time, act like shells of fear that block your true love. These shells can keep in the love you want to offer fully and keep out the love that your heart yearns to receive.

  David Deida

  Wall, Block, Love You

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let the music defuse all the tension.

  Kanye West

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• We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Mystery, Danger

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• History is where tensions were.

  Howard Nemerov

  Howard Nemerov (1993). “A Howard Nemerov Reader”, p.30, University of Missouri Press

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• The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Ideas, Diversity, Creative

  David Hackett Fischer (1991). “Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Challenges, One Day, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

  David Twohy

  Want, Film, Enough

  Source: collider.com

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• President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Race, Decision

  "Cruz on Baltimore: Obama Has "Inflamed Racial Tensions" Instead Of Bringing Us Together" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Profound, Together, Different

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• The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

  Jim Lampley

  Fighting, Hbo, Hands

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• You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

  George Benson

  Play, Sound, Tunes

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• A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

  Greg Giraldo

  Laughing, Surprise, Controversial

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• Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I know a lot of people have mixed comments about her, but I think she's a rad person. She's just focused on what she's doing, as an actress, and she wants to pick the right roles, and she's committed to her craft. She's really cool. We got along. There weren't any tensions or anything.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Eye, Marine, Fire

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• You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Confidence, Skills, Silence

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Light, Expression

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Numbers, Race

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". www.wbur.org. October 08, 2015.

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• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I am sure that it wouldn’t be in the long-term interests of China which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time to see the emergence of any sense of hostility animosity, tension, da da da, between itself and the African continent.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Long, Resources, China

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Real, Ideas

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had this thing in my life of a tension between collaboration, which was extremely important to me, and then being alone. Make of that what you will!

  David Toop

  Book, Thinking, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

  Denis Leary

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: Denis Leary on Season 2's Hamilton Parody". Interview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.

  MC Yogi

  Memories, Past, Focus

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.

  DJ Spooky

  Creating, Environmental, Chemicals

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