"I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter."
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"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."
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"I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never."
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"I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!"
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"Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it."
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"I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders."
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"Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome."
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"[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready."
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"I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure."
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"I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that."
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"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."
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"When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty."
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"When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure."
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"I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong."
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"It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins."
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"Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now."
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"Great performers welcome pressure."
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"You have to press against the pressure that’s pressing against you!"
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"Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well."
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"I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure."
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