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“When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.”

Art Used Successful Dad Losing Beats Pressure Competition My Dad Teenager Being Successful Martial Arts

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”

Hard Enough Feelings Emotional Pressure Dishes Paralysis Pressured

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.”

Problem Loss Four Conditions Disease Ears Pressure Hearing Symptoms Fluid Retention Hearing Loss Vertigo

Author:Katie Leclerc

“For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.”

Want Wanted Beautiful Projects Pressure American Movie

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.”

Media Missing Pressure Just Being

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.”

Want Trying Reason Stories Too Much Directors Pressure Sanity

Author:Rachel McAdams

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

Thinking Want Giving Feels Writing Book Millions Reader Thousand Pressure Tempted Good Book Replicate

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.”

People Feels Huge Percent Pressure Towns Clothings Imaginary Ninety

Author:Lucas Neff

“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.”

Deals Greater Cutting Pressure Clinton Billions Budgets Medicare Providers

Author:Dave Obey

“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.”

Careers Mom Dad Pressure

Author:Stacie Orrico

“Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.”

Wells Hard Done Hours Television Hard Work Pressure Rehearsal Get It Done

Author:Evan Peters

“I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”

People Thinking Men Mind Mean Choices Girl Born Sleep Pressure Dirty Subconscious Hypocrite Naughty Bisexual Bisexuality Never Sleep Hypocrit Dirty Minds

Author:Megan Fox

“The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.”

Pressure Accomplish

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.”

Feels House Pressure Leaving

Author:Alexandra Roach

“When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.”

Way Needs Feels Looks Certain Girl Pressure Stereotype Gorgeous

Author:Margot Robbie

“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”

People Ifs Feels Writing Real Whole Seems Like You Pressure Tricks

Author:David O. Russell

“Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.”

Mean Stills Force Elements Pressure Inevitable Diplomacy

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“There is pressure every day as a footballer.”

Pressure Footballer

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?”

Clothes Pressure California Closets Oakland

Author:Mary Roach

“When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.”

People Has Beens Book Character Able Millions Pressure Series

Author:Nikki Reed

“The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.”

Trying Too Much Danger Shapes Pressure

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.”

Thinking Years Difficult Percent Pressure Seven Expected Fund Seven Years Colorado Tuition Enrollment

Author:Roy Romer

“I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.”

Levels Creative Pressure

Author:Shawn Ryan

“There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.”

Economic Pressure Episodes Exploits

Author:Shawn Ryan

“For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.”

Lying Moral Bears My Friends Difficulty Pressure Immediate Family

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.”

Should Form Spirit Language Practice Pressure International Practicals Analysis Logical Adoption International Language

Book:Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays

Source: Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays

“A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.”

Believe May Nations Attention Achieve Pressure Terrorist Capture Tested Submission Folds Horrific Under Pressure

Author:Virginia Foxx

“Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.”

Ifs World Giving Real Clear Danger Lessons Pressure Severe Spirals Protectionism Downturn Downward Spiral

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.”

Kind Happened Influence Pressure Financial Censorship Rubbish Sponsors Financial Pressure

Author:Morley Safer

“I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.”

Kids Rooms Anxiety Pressure Loud

Author:Zoe Saldana

“When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.”

Way Literature Media Reader Blessing Pressure Dollars Marketplace Dukes Patron

Author:David Talbot

“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.”

Feels Comedy Drama Weight Pressure Therapy

Author:Gabrielle Union

“School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.”

School Used Dies Acting Roles Taken Pressure Relaxed Outlets

Author:James Franco

“I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.”

Pressure Factors

Author:Amy Weber

“I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.”

Young Used Enjoy Pressure My Time Young Ones

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.”

Kind Important Self Done Bits Goes On Pressure Albums Best Things Time Goes On

Author:Al Yankovic

“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.”

“The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.”

Use Happens Energy Effects Buddhism Pressure Miles Occult Miles Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.”

Feels Long Has Beens Enough Hands Draws Picks Stones Pressure Enormous Feel Good Considerate Be Considerate

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.”

People Thinking Desire Stress Pressure Longing Balanced Stressed Psychedelic Balanced Life Fidgeting

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.”

Different Would Be Life Is Acting Pressure

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.”

People Wells Comedy Pressure Communicate Producers Comedian Under Pressure

Author:Al Franken

“Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.”

People Play Easier Tough Pressure Wimbledon

Author:Andy Murray

“I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.”

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Author:Grant Morrison

“I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.”

Country Bits Drug Pressure Poison Dealer Drug Dealers

Author:Bill McCollum

“I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.”

Way Feels Wanted Projects Pressure My Way Under Pressure

Author:Olivia Williams

“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Body Situation Letting Go Pressure Your Body Best Way Tension Whistling

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.”

Thinking Way Different Stories Television Shapes Pressure Very Good Radio Newspapers Locals Local Business

Author:Jeff Zucker

“Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.”

Results Pressure

Author:Zhang Ziyi

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