Convince Quotes
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
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The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.
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We convince by our presence.
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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
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You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.
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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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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.
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I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.
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Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.
