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I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring. Elizabeth Strout

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Tension is the cornerstone of any good story. Eric Nylund

Good Cornerstone Good Story Tension Any Story

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite. Ethan Canin

There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors. Evan Osnos

Political Collective Building National Ambition Sense Think Way Airport Neighbors East Out See Some Fact Roads Putting Tension South Which China Far Far Away Sea Away Thing Extending

I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition. Flea

School Composition Tension Liked Learn Learned How Sound Trumpet Bands Goes Note Create Produces Why Play Things Played

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body. Fuzzy Zoeller

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Gene Luen Yang

Think Clark Tension Between Always Romantic Lane Kent

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Georg Simmel

Secrecy Release Finds Tension Involves Revelation Which Moment

I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is. Greg Daniels

Good You Feeling Think Significant More Put Tension Between Steve Wrote Because Always Closure Really Episode Series Last

Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour, he preserved the peace. He improved relations with the Soviet Union and replaced tension over Berlin with a limited test ban treaty. Gretchen Rubin

War Peace Dangerous Preserved Cold President Relations Berlin Only He Tension Tenure Over Days Hour Most Limited Test His Ban Replaced Improved Soviet Soviet Union Short Achieved Much Union Kennedy Treaty

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. Guillaume Canet

People Group More More Or Less Tension Between Any Less

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Havelock Ellis

Sometimes Nervous Doubt Suicide System Winding Prevalence Civilization Point Tension Without Test Snaps Intellectual Up Height Means Population Utmost

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates

Class Black Inevitable White Strategy Think Unless Promote More Tension Between Versus Any Middle Middle Class Them Interests Avert Unite

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. Holly Hunter

Character Me Distance Some Tension Between Like Always Actor Playing

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest. Iris Chang

Country Out Clear Tension California Because Greatest Where Wanted Interest Chinese Racial Really Special Special Interest Special Interest Groups Groups Shut

We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension. Isaac Hanson

Band Enough Head-On Attention Tension Anthem Walked Paying Internal

I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson. James Knowles III

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.' James Wan

Big Tension Big Fan Goal Suspense Fan Filmmaking

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. Jane Campion

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