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Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
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.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.
Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
Constant slumping increases the stress on the spine and joints, and can lead to headaches, neck and shoulder tension, and lower-back pain.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is so high.
Our bodies hold so much tension and resentment and sadness, so if we don't move it out of the body, we stay stuck in those negative patterns.
'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.
The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am not evangelical.
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
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.
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.