Quotes About Compelling

We all also suffer from confirmation bias, the tendency to spot evidence in support of a proposition that we already think is true. So it is not always the case that people start with a belief and then set out to communicate it; much of the bullshit to which we are exposed comes from folks who have a compelling reason to communicate something and then come to believe it. Or to think they believe it.

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us more compelling to the consumer.

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

A wonderful story!

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

For me, making a mass film is tougher. A lot of things needed to be intertwined into a two-hour narrative without getting too complicated.

I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Best thing I've read in a long, long time." —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

It doesn't work like that, she said, and I was hoping she would tell me how it did work. Maybe she could see that, because she went on. Sometimes you're loved because of your weaknesses, she said. What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

Certainly, for black women, our struggle has not been to emerge from silence into speech but to change the nature and direction of our speech, to make a speech that compels listeners, one that is heard.

The message received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.

Instead he looked dark and dangerous, a man on the sexual edge.