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• My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Breathing, Air

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Mind, Inward

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.77, New World Library

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• Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Nerves, Why Not, Pressure

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• I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Summer, Racism, Voters

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• I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Israel, Identity, Nationality

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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• I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

  Andrew Denton

  Nervous, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

  Mark Batterson

  Years, Long, People

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• In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

  Guillaume Canet

  People, Groups, Affinity

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• In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

  Sean Durkin

  Cutting, Editing, Creating

  "FUTURES| Sundance’s Golden Boy Sean Durkin, Director/Writer of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

  David Guterson

  Cities, Needs, Melancholy

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• I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.

  Jacques Audiard

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Evil, Matter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.238, Verso

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• The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

  Kate Bush

  Sex, Good Life, Thinking

  Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978

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• The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

  Richard Dooling

  Character, Men, Land

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• Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Drama, Comedy

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• Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

  Lauren Hutton

  Faces, Your Face, Ends

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• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Together, Looks, Syntax

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• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

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• The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Musical, Sound, Syntax

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