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

• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Results

• Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Economic
  • Patriot
  • Barack

• The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Singing
  • Records

• Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Cutting
  • Wells
  • Roles

• Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Gay

• 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