Compelling Quotes - Page 24

• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Nonfiction, Technique, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.

  Walter Kirn

  Running, Flirting, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

  Annie E. Clark

  Struggle, Emotional, Being Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.

  Christopher Castellani

  Writing, Interesting, Baggage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.

  Ann Friedman

  Strong, Hurt, Editing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  Catherine Brady

  Desire, Body, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Interesting, Bars

  Source: collider.com

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• What keeps me awake at night is just, Am I making the best use of the time that remains for me, to both be as good an example as I can in my own daily life, and as compelling as possible a voice for the ways in which we can all work together to tackle these issues.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Night, Voice, Issues

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. We thought it would make a very compelling season of television. We were like, "Someone is going to make this. Why don't we do it?"

  Miles Millar

  Book, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.

  Paul Wesley

  Vampire, Depth, Diaries

  Source: www.ew.com

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• What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.

  Chris Milk

  Fashion, Technology, Data

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Knowing, Interesting

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

  Steve Martin

  People, Firsts, Banjos

  "Steve Martin: Comedian Takes Banjo Seriously". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 4, 2009.

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• For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.

  Annie Leonard

  Data, Common Sense, People

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• I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Hard Times, People, Legacy

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

  Bill Nye

  Answers, Way, Bangs

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.

  Meera Menon

  Wall, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Character, Loss, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

  Cass McCombs

  Loneliness, Force, Universe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

  Scott Derrickson

  Thinking, Villain

  Source: collider.com

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• I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Talking, Domes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We should want our advertising to be compelling.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Want, Advertising, Should

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Thinking, Voice, Rooms

  Source: wwd.com

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