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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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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.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
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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.
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I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
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With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
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Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that.
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The surface causes of environmental carelessness among conservative Christians are legion, including subcontracting the evangelical mind out to right-wing politicians and greedy business interests.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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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.
