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Quotes About Buildup

I'll play about with different sounds in the studio with no concept of music at all. I'll just build up a song in layers and when it sounds all right and gives me a vibe, that's enough, and I'll add vocals and move on.
~ Tricky
Everybody's asking me what type of shampoo I use, and I'm like... 4 years of buildup right here.
~ Joe Keery
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
~ Gore Vidal
He said it would be too late to change course once the impact of the buildup began to be felt.
~ James Gustave Speth
Already, Margo had noticed the early buildup for next year's blockbuster exhibition, 21st Century Plagues.
~ Douglas Preston
I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.
~ Georgia May Jagger
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
~ Jason Statham
It's not the heat, came his return mutter. It's a critical buildup of sperm.
~ Linda Howard
When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.
~ Kevin Reilly
But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.
~ Margaret Atwood
The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.
~ Anne Lamott
Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations with the West, which contributed to the unraveling of his empire.
~ Michael Beschloss
If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.
~ Hesiod
It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.
~ Stephen King
There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.
~ Michelle Kwan
Trump has not only ordered a disturbing military buildup in the Persian Gulf, he's determined to punish any country that has continued to do business with Iran since he withdrew from the nuclear treaty the United States instigated and signed in 2015.
~ Neil Macdonald
A careful analysis of the DNA within the mitochondria indicates that errors are indeed concentrated here. The hope is that one day scientists might use the cells' own repair mechanisms to reverse the buildup of errors in the mitochondriaand therefore prolong the cells' useful life.
~ Michio Kaku
a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.
~ Mike Carey
Almost sneezing is like almost having an orgasm. Sure it tickles getting there, but if you don't get the release you were hoping for at the end, then what's the point?
~ Karyn Bosnak
I like a quickie as much as the next person, but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained from slow sex — from slowing down in the bedroom. You tap into those deeper psychological, emotional, spiritual currents, and you get a better orgasm with the buildup. You can get more bang for your buck, let's say.
~ Carl Honore
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
~ Hesiod
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
~ George R.R. Martin
Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.
~ V.S. Ramachandran
Think of the transformation as a process of buildup followed by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action. Within each of these three stages, there are two key concepts, shown in the framework and described below. Wrapping around this entire framework is a concept we came to call the flywheel, which captures the gestalt of the entire process of going from good to great.
~ James C. Collins