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• I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Differences, Illustration

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Japan, States, Relaxed

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• You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Jobs, Want

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• I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

  Tom Ford

  Country, Thinking, America

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• It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, People, Friendly

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rude, Trying, Misanthropic

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So i can get hard on tour. I dont think lust is a sin - People should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then theyd be less uptight.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Thinking, Should Have

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• I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

  Amanda Peet

  Husband, Hippie, Important

  "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

  Iris Apfel

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese

  Character, Mean, Bully

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her into never mentioning the predicament with the Dreamsnatcher again. I'll become a swinger," I said. her eyes bugged. Uptight rearing made her uncomfortable with alternate lifestyles. "That's right. threesomes, foursomes, and more. bones knows about a thousand chicks who'd love to hop into bed with us. It'll be kinky, we'll get out freak on.-

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mother, Eye, Thinking

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• I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Littles, Politician

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• Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Tools, Tables

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Balance

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• It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

  Rob McElhenney

  Mean, People, Abortion

  "Looking At The 'Sunny' Side Of Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 17, 2008.

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• To enjoy your goals, think of them as signposts, pointing you in a certain direction. They give you a focus and help your energy to get moving. The way you go is up to you; you can get very uptight focusing only on getting to your goal or you can relax and enjoy the entire journey, appreciating every unexpected bend and turn of the road, every new opportunity for learning and feeling.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Opportunity, Journey

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Hate, People, Bits

  "5 Things You Didn’t Know About One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson" by Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2013.

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• I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

  Julie Andrews

  Queens, Office, Boxes

  Saturday Evening Post, February 198.

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• There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

  Ewan McGregor

  Mean, Offering, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.' So he was partially right wasn't he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you're not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman's body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak.

  Phil Gingrey

  Baby, Horse, Couple

  "Phil Gingrey Defends Todd Akin’s Rape Comment: ‘He’s Partly Right’" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

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  Ram Dass

  Karma, Liars, Expectations

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• German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

  Donna Summer

  War, Past, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• I'll definitely pay attention to someone who is critiquing the artwork. But as far as someone not thinking street harassment is a big deal or that I'm being uptight? I don't think that's a valid critique.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

  Austin Kleon

  Editing, Ideas, Computer

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.58, Workman Publishing

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