#tens

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#always #because #being #brian #competitive

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#after #away #balance #competition #everyone

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#always #began #competitions #daniel #did

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#been #concept #friend #giver #had

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#because #furniture #growing #growing up #had

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#i #in the past #loved #man #must

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#pretty #set #tense

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. ↗