#pressured

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #like #love #pressured #prose

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#coal #existence #pain #pearls #pressured

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#anyone #between #cross #evil #forces

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#comfort #directly #experimenting #false #i

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #been #cinema #films #into

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?' ↗

— Rosie Perez

#being #come #covers #empowered #even

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #poetry #pressured #resilient #simply

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#been #certain #company #cut #i

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation. ↗

— David Kay

#agenda #another #commonly #conclusions #deeply