Pico Iyer

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Indian Writer

James Wan

What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.

Australian Producer

Stellan Skarsgard

I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

Swedish Actor

Satoru Iwata

Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help.

Japanese Businessman

William Friedkin

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

American Director

Jason Statham

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

British Actor

Tricky

Yes, well, on stage I'm a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That's not me because I'm humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.

English Musician

Tina Knowles

My 'Book of Prayer' is the most important thing I carry. If I'm tense about something or need to pray for protection for my kids, it always helps.

American Businesswoman

Stephen Amell

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Canadian Actor

Abi Morgan

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

Welsh Playwright

Helps indicate if the action is in the past, present, or future for clarity.

Time Reference

Using consistent tense creates a clear story timeline.

Narrative Cohesion

Some languages favour certain tenses, knowing this can aid understanding.

Cultural Nuance

Describes the body's reaction to stress or nerves.

Physical Response

Indicates a person's anxious emotional state.

Emotional State

Evokes the mood of a given situation or environment.

Atmosphere

Physical Preparation

Can convey emotions non-verbally through muscle tension.

Body Language

Describes the body's automatic reaction to chilly conditions.

Response to Cold

 tense muscles and struggle with concentrating. But they aren't getting treatment. There's a lot of issues with mental-health care in this country. Some people don't have insurance that would cover it. Some have been dismissed or minimized in the past, and don't think seeking help will do any good. Some worry about the stigma

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 where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?

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 Because what it says is that Aaron's life and death and love are just moments that I can leave behind me -- and that I probably should. And when I talk about Aaron, I slip so easily into the present tense, and I've always thought that made me weird. And then I noticed that everybody does it.

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 So tense is the struggle between creator and creature that the two have merged in our collective imagination. Before you read or reread the original text, there are several other things that are helpful to know about Frankenstein and how it came to assume its multiple meanings.

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 with the mum but today we've got to pick them up and that's for a very good reason it's time for their vaccinations really important sort of health check but it's a little bit tense a little bit nervous because they've had such little contact with humans they're not

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 and other people that they you know other other people touch those pants and in various ways and I really felt that I had to have them and it was important that I have them but I was sure I wouldn't get them in the bidding was fierce and it was really really tense

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 tense if so that's because your brain comes equipped with a primal fight-or-flight response to danger and it's rare that your brain can override it even at times when danger isn't really present like in this unique experiment we've designed to test

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 so your brain appeals to other muscles for help. You plant your feet, tighten your belly, and tense your back, generating enough force to yank it open. Your nervous system has just leveraged the resources you already have, other muscles,

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 And lest you think that the physics of music is only useful for entertainment, consider this. Some physicists think that everything in the universe is created by the harmonic series of very tiny, very tense strings.

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 But I think it was one of the most tense moments of my life and as a director, also just one of

Tense