Tension Quotes - Page 11

• As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Moving, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

  Moses Finley

  Leader, Political, Would Be

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  "For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

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• There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

  Francois Hollande

  Freedom, Attachment, People

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• The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
  the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

  Howard Thurman

  Men, Evil, World

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

  Raymond Chandler

  This Generation, Generations, Patterns

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

  Colin Powell

  Toil, Sense Of Humor, Break

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Colin Powell". www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

  Avey Tare

  Important, Horror, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.

  Alice Eve

  Fighting, Flirting, People

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.

  Michael Sucsy

  Fighting, Editors, Creative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

  George Nolfi

  Real, People, Dancing

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Facts, Comedy

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Golf

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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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• 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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• There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Gymnastics, Grace, Athleticism

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, World, Degrees

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• ...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Meaningful, Real, Book

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• A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Years, Secret, Ironic

  J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Forever, Shapes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

  Doris Lessing

  Months, October, Unendurable

  'The Martha Quest' (1952) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Clouds, Blue

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