Convince Quotes - Page 39

• And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Games, Desire

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• It's not my job. The Weinstein company, it's their job to convince people. My job was to make the movie. That's what I did. I know what we did in France was to have the maximum screenings just to let people talk about the movie and say they enjoyed the movie.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Jobs, People, France

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

  Lenny Bruce

  Giving Up, Men, Names

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Failing, Minors, Majors

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• Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.

  Joe Gibbs

  Player, Practice, Way

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• I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

  Joe Casey

  Band, I Can

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Trying, Used

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• Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

  Michael Schudson

  Black And White, Important, Tables

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.14, Routledge

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• I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.

  Andy Kindler

  Wizards, Shows

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• We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

  A. D. Coleman

  Real, Years, Trying

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• When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Thinking, New Job

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• Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

  Katherine Center

  Matter

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• When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.

  Kid Cudi

  Trying, Bother

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• [Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.599, Modern Library

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• Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.

  Pete Yorn

  Causes, Alright

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• When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.

  Duncan Jones

  Moon, Talking, People

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• You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Crazy, Heart, People

  "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule". Interview with Miles E. Johnson, www.motherjones.com. December 17, 2015.

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• What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Basketball, Kids, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not solve anything, really. Reasoning is theoretical. Until you feel with your heart, you don't know if a thing is true. I found that book was absolutely authentic. I absolutely knew it was the truth. My whole heart accepted it.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Book, Heart, Way

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm Not There'] and Carol Aird of 1952. I challenge any director out there to come up with a wider divide. I had to convince her to take the Dylan role, and that took effort. But with 'Carol,' she was already attached.

  Todd Haynes

  Two, Effort, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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