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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
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.
- Nov 07, 2020
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
- Royalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly consuming entertainment; we treat celebrities like role models and royalty. Sometimes destructive behavior gets ignored, or sometimes the pressure breaks them.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think every time I was put in a high pressure position, I've always delivered.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.
- Nov 07, 2020