Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre
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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
Shirley Manson
FindKindTensionProductiveVery
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman
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Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Bruce Springsteen
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I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.
Alistair Petrie
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You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker
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McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
Kevin Whately
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Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.
Paul Horn
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In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.
Ben Dolnick
LifeLoveTranquilityTensionBooks
Too much tension can do bad things to you.
Paolo Maldini
YouBadToo MuchThingsTensionToo
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
RelationshipThinkYouRealTension
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard
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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
Josh Gondelman
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The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
Bob Beckel
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People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.
Winona Ryder
PeopleHoldTensionMuchHow
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
MeLanguageKindSoundTensionPull
Music is like a huge release of tension.
James Taylor
MusicReleaseTensionLikeHuge
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
David Guterson
MeNeedTensionMelancholyProduce
Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.
Lauren Hutton
FaceEndWhateverUpTensionYour
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
Tara Stiles
YourselfYouTensionChargeExciting
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
John Mackey
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Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.
Rob Corddry
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