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• The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Reality, Odds

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.

  Franka Potente

  Order, Sweat, Indulge In

  Source: collider.com

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• Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

  Tom Hooper

  Acting, Moments, Present Tense

  "Director Tom Hooper Talks LES MISERABLES, Making the Decision to Have the Actors Sing Live, the Difficulty of Editing the Movie Down, an Extended Cut, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tunnels, People, Suffering

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• When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body

  Louise Hay

  Relax, Body, Remember

  Louise L. Hay (2004). “I Can Do It: How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life”, p.61, Hay House, Inc

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• Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Writing, Needs, Form

  "In our new feature, Guillermo Del Toro takes us through his biggest firsts". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Backwards, Only Time

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

  Dennis Potter

  Boys, Wonderful, Celebrate

  "We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense". Interview with Melvyn Bragg, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 1994.

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• As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.

  Jonathan Meades

  Stupid, Believe, Hyper

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

  Tim Winton

  Distance, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I think various places in this country are ready to explode. I think [race relations] are very tense. I think that [Barack] Obama has divided the country as far as race relations are concerned, and I think that you have certain sections, and you have lots of different locations within this country that potentially are powder kegs.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perseverance, Determination, Attitude

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in Mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. Well, I asked him "how long he thinks we had been getting tired"? I have been tired for 46 years and my parents was tired before me and their parents were tired, and I have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things I would see going on among Negroes that I didn't like and I don't like now.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

  Rafael Nadal

  Wrestling, Self, Tennis

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

  Zoe Leonard

  Past, Desire, Be Here Now

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Suspense, Bombs

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• Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Passive Voice, Use, Splits

  "Sotomayoralities" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2009.

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• I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Knack, Keel

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• My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Healthy, Affection, Confrontation

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• You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else and the other may be more harmful. Don't go on escaping problems, face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not, smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.

  Rajneesh

  Escaping, Sky, Goal

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• Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

  Anne Lamott

  Joy, Magic, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.193, Anchor

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• To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Play, People, Complacency

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

  Joseph Boyden

  Challenges, Stories, Crafts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.

  Chris Hayes

  Matter, Determined, Mood

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