Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Rhianna Pratchett

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Projects

• I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Enjoy
  • Pressure
  • Direction

• When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don't feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Pressure
  • Falling

• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Money
  • Know
  • Movies

• I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Help
  • Role
  • Projects

• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Forever
  • Struggle
  • Body

• The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • Pressure
  • Accomplish

• I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • More
  • Projects
  • Universal

• With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Image

• What has happened at Indiana, every game becomes a final exam. You are judged by your most recent performance, and that makes it tough for everybody in the program. It's tough enough to try to win without having that kind of pressure.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Exam

• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Artist

• Sir Isaac Newton legendarily wrote the famous Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which gave us principles that a couple of hundred years later were good enough to land a man on the moon. Then he wrote the slightly less well known Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Artes Magicis, which codified the magical techniques that allow me to inconvenience paper targets and Nightingale to demolish small agricultural buildings.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Moon
  • Buildings
  • Targets

• There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Pressure
  • Projects
  • Flexible