Believable Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Live Life, Writing, Paper

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Hero, Character

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• A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Motivation, Writing, Adventure

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• It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fall, Men, Impact

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• Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

  Lilian Katz

  Education, Children, Self Esteem

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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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• 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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• I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

  Terry Brooks

  Magic, Fabric, Want

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• I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Moving, Commitment

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

  Matt Dillon

  Character, Long, Worry

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

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• I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Creating, Way

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