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• You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

  Christopher Meloni

  Watches, Stories, Want

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• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  Don Bluth

  Teamwork, Heart, Artist

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• When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Views, Law

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  Vince McMahon

  Believe, Attention, Levels

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• It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

  Jon Kyl

  Dream, Example, Would Be

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Media, Iraq, Als

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• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Dick Wolf

  Book, Writing, Character

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• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Compelling Reason, Guarantees, Constitution

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• If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Missing You, Opportunity, Imagination

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• My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

  David McCullough

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2003.

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• The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

  Ethan Coen

  Hiking, Everyday, Mountain

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• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Simple, Ideas

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• It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Discipline, People, Perspective

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• The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Inspiration, Mean

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo

  Christopher Golden

  Children, Reading, Character

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• The cool blade
  Severs between coolness, apple-rind
  Compelling a recognition.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Knives, Apples, Fruit

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all movies in my head hundreds of times before they were ever made. You have to see it in your imagination. It has to be real to you.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Real, Order, Imagination

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

  Ron Rash

  Sea, Ideas, Caves

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• Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it.

  Mike W. Barr

  Writing, Knowing, Superhero

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• Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.

  Judith Viorst

  Dream, Giving Up, Growing Up

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

  Chris Hegedus

  Giving, Stories, Being There

  "Live Chat with Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

  Todd Solondz

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "Director Todd Solondz Interview DARK HORSE". Interview with Phil Brown, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Safety, Incentives, Moral

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• Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Tasks, Care

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