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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.
When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.
Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.
For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.
The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.
Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.
If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows.
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.
My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
In general, liberals fear conservative judges far too much. In almost all areas, in fact, they dramatically overstate the stakes.
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.
It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.
My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.
The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.
For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.
And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!
Regardless of what the stakes are, our attitude and our mindset doesn't change.
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
