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Pressure Quotes
"We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart."
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"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."
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"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."
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"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."
14
"I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do."
13
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
13
"We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year."
13
"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."
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"It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder."
12
"And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure."
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"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
12
"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."
12
"No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments."
12
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
12
"Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket."
11
"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason."
11
"I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it."
10
"There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties."
10
"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."
10
"If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that."
10
"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked."
10
"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else."
10
"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."
10
"It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well."
10
"When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm."
9
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
9
"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."
9
"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."
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"There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show."
8
"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."
7
"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution."
7
"The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure."
7
"I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure."
7
"I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces."
7
"At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well."
7
"I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation."
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