"There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat"
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"From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there."
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"With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is."
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"I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?"
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"There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life."
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"Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary."
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"We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative."
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"I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute."
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"As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear."
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"I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me."
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"While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed."
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"Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning."
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"Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller."
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"The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
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"I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am."
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"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
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"As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure."
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"The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing."
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"If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here."
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"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."
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