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• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  Patrick Stewart

  Creating, Important, World

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• I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

  Gale Harold

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Queer as Folk‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

  Timothy Dalton

  Men, People, Important

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

  Todd Solondz

  Real, People, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

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• I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

  Michael Sheen

  Character, Reputation, Extremes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and Fringe allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, collider.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

  Kevin Bacon

  Character, Responsibility, Actors

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• Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Successful, Fiction, Today

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• Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Space, People

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• I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Kissing, Giving, Want

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• Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

  Bryan Cranston

  Sake, Boring

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Drive, Breaking Dad and Total Recall at Tiff". Interview with Fred Topel, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Artist, Trying

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• I always try to write about believable people.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, People, Trying

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• What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, People, Psychology

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• You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

  Bill Murray

  Adventure, Common Sense, Whiskey

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• I’m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it’s just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!

  Evelyne Brochu

  Character, Thinking, Mind

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• What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Light, Darkness

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, 2009.

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• My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

  Kristian Bush

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

  Vincent Price

  Writing, Actors, Horror

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• I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Talking, Technique

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.171, Macmillan

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• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Views, Religion

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Honesty, Believe

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• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone.

  Anna Paquin

  Real, Play, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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