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In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. Sean Durkin

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I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that. Sean Patrick Thomas

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I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. Sean Scully

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. Sharon Salzberg

Survival People Difficult Films Tension Terms Reduced Oppressive Provides Lot Situations Different Interesting Different Things Things Bring

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice. Sondra Radvanovsky

You Together Temperament Voice Tension Sing Tight Go Often Body

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all. Stephen Hough

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I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. Sydney Pollack

Part Tension Feel Terror Just Acting

Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back, oh my! Tara Stiles

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Tension happens. It will continue to happen. If we didn't have tension, we wouldn't be alive. How we maintenance ourselves makes all the difference in how we live our lives. Tara Stiles

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In California, there is a strong tension between north and south. Thomas Mars

Strong Tension Between California South North

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly. Tito Vilanova

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I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. Tom Shadyac

Believe Our Physically Emotional Tension Itself Manifest

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head. Viswanathan Anand

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone. Watkin Tudor Jones

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The tension between public and private science is powerful. Wil S. Hylton

Science Tension Powerful Between Private Public

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law. William H. Pryor

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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. William Landay

Good Conflict High Good Stories Driven Tension Stories Stakes

People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms. Winona Ryder

People Tension How How Much Hold Realise Much

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. Wolfgang Tillmans

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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. Yusef Komunyakaa

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