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• Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Unique, Evaluation

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• Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Laughter, Nerves, Calm

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• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  Mary Douglas

  Leader, Factions, Threat

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• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  Kate Burton

  Dad, Drama, School

  "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

  Lee Child

  Moving, Book, Character

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• Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

  Anthony Daniels

  Two, Three, Notes

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

  Matthew William Goode

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Moving, Faces, Tattooed

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

  Kate Bush

  Nervous

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that.

  Viola Davis

  Giving, Directors, Like You

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

  Seamus Heaney

  Jobs, Safe, Anticipation

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Journey, Snow

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Funny, Sleep, Years

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• Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Creative, Matter

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, Fawcett Books

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• Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Sleep, Impossible, Sermons

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  Emily Oster

  Fighting, People, Doe

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• Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.

  Lisa Unger

  Memories, Dark, Past

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• In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.

  S. J. Perelman

  Hero, Law, Fans

  "Captain Future, Block That Kick!". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 72, 1992.

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• Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Ducks

  "Difficult People". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

  Adam Sandler

  Horse, Fake, Hats

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.

  James Elkins

  Portraits, Records, Movement

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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