Top Tension Quotes
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
Paul Greengrass
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
Leonard Orr
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
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In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
Paul Greengrass 
63% of people like this quote
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed
63% of people like this quote
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre
63% of people like this quote
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
Leonard Orr
61% of people like this quote
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
61% of people like this quote
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow
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So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
Latrell Sprewell
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Robert Morgan
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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton
57% of people like this quote
Popular Tension Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauH. L. MenckenMartin Luther King, Jr.Robert MorganLeon KassBrian EnoR. Buckminster FullerNaguib MahfouzNorman MailerJohn le CarreGeorge BurnsAllen KleinJames TaylorHenry Ellis
Marilyn HackerTerrence HowardSarah McLachlanDavid GutersonRob CorddryIris ChangMadeleine StoweTwyla TharpKevin SpaceyAngela DavisDonald NormanHenry ReedMike FiggisJohn W. GardnerBenito Mussolini
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