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You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

Tension is the great integrity.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

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.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.