11 Duress Quotes for You to Enjoy

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. Henry Kissinger

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I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress. Marianne Elliott

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Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure. Colin Jost

To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture. Malcolm Nance

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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on. Emily Blunt

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When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality. Gerard Butler

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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life. R. A. Salvatore

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There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake. Tom Reiss

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