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• Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

  Frederic Tuten

  Contemporary Fiction, Depth, Stories

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Successful

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Thinking, Spiders

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to just follow what I find compelling. In order for me to be compelling, I have to be compelled. I don't try to think about what people are interested in seeing, I have to be interested. For me, that works the best.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: variety.com

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• Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Trends

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• I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.

  Samuel B. Pettengill

  Religious, Feelings, Balance

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• Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

  Lyle Lovett

  Singers, Sensitive, Songwriters

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• The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Clever, People, Dangerous

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

  Marc Maron

  Cat, Self, Way

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

  Paul Smith

  Teacher, Stories, Best Teacher

  Paul Smith (2012). “Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire”, p.60, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

  Matt Cutts

  White, Creating, People

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• Popularity is the product of two factors: (a) how compelling material you offer, and (b) how easy it is to access it. Host free pirated movies and users will flock to the site, even if it's difficult to use.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Two, Use, Host

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• James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Stories, Reincarnation, Evidence

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• The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

  B. Joseph Pine II

  Admission, Understood, Versus

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• Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Simple, Profound, Secret

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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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