Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high…

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

— Dolly Parton

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…

— Yo Gotti

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

— Winston Churchill

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of…

— Erich Fromm

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

— John Avlon

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

— Patrick Lencioni

When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback and rewrote…

— Rick Famuyiwa

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

— Molly Bloom

I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your…

— Brian J. Smith

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

— Megan Ganz

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

— Terence Winter

For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.

— Michael Avenatti

When you're in high school and you're living in that world, it's just kind of a microcosm. I remember how heightened everything was. It…

— Rachel Sennott

High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying…

— Pamela Meyer