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When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that.
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.
Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Meditation helps you to learn about character and mind. It relieves you of the tension you have gone through.
There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.
A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.
There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.
Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.
One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
I've always been somebody who was just bouncing off the walls and high tension, hyperactive, you know what I'm saying?
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.
Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.
I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.