Quotes About Tension

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I mean, it just seems to me that everybody wants to get on each other, everybody wants to attack everybody.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

I love serial drama.

Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

I didn't like Iggy, I was pretty open with that. She was awful to me.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

As much as we joke around about 'The Bachelor' being the most dramatic show ever, Miss America really is an amazingly dramatic moment.

Pressure is just bad things for you.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

Balance is the enemy of art.

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.