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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I believe in the compelling power of love.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Believe, Power Of Love, I Believe

  Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr

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

  Christopher Meloni

  Watches, Stories, Want

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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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• I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

  Will Wright

  Reality, Thinking, Games

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• It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

  Michael Apted

  Movie, Skills, Imagination

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• So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

  John Sexton

  Artist, Trying, Elements

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• How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Love, Religious, Identity

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

  William Everson

  Sanctity, Attributes, Multiple

  William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.95, Stanford University Press

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• The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

  Madeline Hunter

  Character, Two, Romance

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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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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• China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Destiny, Intelligent, Europe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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