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- Nov 07, 2020
Pressure Quotes
For when everything is riding on it.
Several of these quotes come from people who built entire careers under pressure, describing repertory theatre as training for exactly that, a feeling explored further in the feel collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
- Good Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we all have to be Pinterest-perfect, killing it on all fronts, drinking our probiotics, remembering to have Rishi, and putting all these things in our kids' lunches - there's a lot of pressure to do all of the things. And we can't do all of the things. I can do a few things, and I've got them nailed. I think that's more realistic.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020