A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
quote by Frank Luntz
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In The Soul Of Darkness
Help that hurts
Comes straight from the heart
Serious and irrevocable
It is unflinchingly precise
Disturbing and original
It is deeply shocking
Moving and always compelling
It is a war of nerves triumph
To write deceptively a tale
Bold, refreshing and brave
To tell it as it actually is
A war for peace
An irony as compelling as an empty page
poem by Oreu Leunoto
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
quote by Wallis Simpson
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.
quote by Carl Sagan
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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.
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
quote by Christopher Meloni
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If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
quote by Andre Braugher
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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.
quote by George Henry Lewes
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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.
quote by Michael Apted
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And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
quote by Griffin Dunne
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I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
quote by Atom Egoyan
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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.
How Low Can Traditions Sink?
Is he a hypocrite?
Another self righteous sleaze,
To be known to victimize boys...
With compelling sermons,
Preached from a pulpit.
Or...
Is he just another demon,
Philosophing life with hymns and scriptures.
And using standards long now ditched,
Into cesspools where the wicked become enriched.
And with a knowledge of this...
Give glorious performances as expected.
But when they leave people pleased,
They crawl back into their holes...
Where others like them remove their pretentions.
By disrobing from a slickness...
To do things discreet, down-low and unmentioned.
Is he a hypocrite?
Another self righteous sleaze,
To be known to victimize boys...
With compelling sermons,
Preached from a pulpit?
What do you think?
How low can traditions sink?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Physical Conscience
The moral conscience — court of last appeal —
Our word of God — our Heaven- sent light and guide —
From what high aims it lures our steps aside!
To what immoral deeds it sets its seal!
That beacon lamp has lost its sacred fire;
That pilot- guide, compelling wind and wave,
By slow, blind process, has become the slave
Of all- compelling custom and desire.
Not so the conscience of the body. This,
Untamed and true, still speaks in voice and face,
In cold lips stiffened to the loveless kiss,
In shamed limbs shrinking from unloved embrace,
In love- born passion, that no laws compel,
Nor gold can purchase, nor ambition sell.
poem by Ada Cambridge
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Happy Thoughts
Going to thoughts that reside in happiness
Collects for you a compulsion to act divinely;
And so a loop emerges for the betterment of the soul,
The soul has learned the religion of truth.
For truth shall demand a thought, compelling
And mysterious to own, just like a philosophy
Or reality of the pen, the paper or the mind;
Seek this thought by visiting someplace faraway.
poem by Naveed Akram
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If you make compelling television, they will come.
quote by Henry Winkler
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
quote by Aaron Hill
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
quote by Vince McMahon
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It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
quote by Chaim Weizmann
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