Quotes About Tension

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

In limited overs game, falling short by 15-20 runs matters a lot.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

I'm not sure if it's easier to play against teams who try to play football against you rather than sit back.

'Homeland' does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

When I present 'Million Pound Drop', I'm screaming the right answer in my head just like you're screaming at the television screen.

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on!

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She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

Tom Molia stood at the bottom, four feet deep, bare chested, coughing spasmodically into his shirt, which he pressed tightly over his nose and mouth.

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he was scowling like he'd received Botox injections while constipated.