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Tension Quotes by Sol Stein
- To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
- Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel…
More Tension Quotes
- 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… — Lance Armstrong
- When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be… — Russell Baker
- One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. — Lewis Black
- You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of… — Tony Blair
- If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse… — Jo Brand
- If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress… — George Burns
- I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion
- But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's… — John le Carre
- I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got… — John le Carre
- To get along with me, don't increase my tension. — Ty Cobb
- War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan
- I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White… — Martin Luther King, Jr.