How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Sometimes whatever you say to players is not enough to convince them your choice is the right one.

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.

You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.

Until David Bellavia tells me to shut up, I'm going to keep trying to convince him that our country needs him.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.

I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.

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