Compelling Quotes - Page 14

• I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.

  Miles Millar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, Interesting, Narrative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Sex, Addiction, Adults

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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• I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

  Chris Matthews

  Children, Eye, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Real, Thinking

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• There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

  Niger Innis

  Compelling Reason, Land, America

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• I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Compelling Reason, World

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

  Philip Yancey

  Way, Share, Source

  Philip Yancey (2014). “Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?”, p.24, Zondervan

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• My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Police, Recommendations, Screening

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• I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Blood, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

  J.H. Wyman

  Years, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Character, Long, Historical

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• Create a compelling service vision. When people want to, they will.

  Ron Kaufman

  People, Vision, Want

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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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• It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Mirrors, Portraits

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm probably always guilty for rooting for a long series. Not either side - I don't really care who wins the game, but it makes for more compelling TV the more games you go deeper into a series.

  Joe Buck

  Winning, Games, Long

  Source: thebiglead.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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• We should want our advertising to be compelling.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Want, Advertising, Should

  Source: wwd.com

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• The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Community, Leader

  "The Wrath Of Grapes: Oklahoma City MAPS Its Future" by Mick Cornett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

  Cass McCombs

  Loneliness, Force, Universe

  Source: www.avclub.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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