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I was putting all those pressures on myself.
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.
I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.
Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.
I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
Societal pressures can really force girls to look one specific way, when in reality there's not one way to be good.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
You have to be able to deal with the pressures that playing for a big club like Hibs brings and it's not for everyone.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.
I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.
Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
And, honestly, tennis is such a tough sport as it is, it's only you on court, so you've got to deal with a lot of different pressures and expectations and when things aren't going well.
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'
I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think.
Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.
I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.