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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

~Anne Carson

Topics: Ability Both Construct Convincing Emotional Emotional Life Facts Feels Life Like Physical Record Sensual Surface Think

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I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

~Anne Parillaud

Topics: Act Actress Career Convincing Defend Even Had Lawyer Motivation Never Role Same Supposed Thought You

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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Book Characters Convincing Emotionally Important Less Make Place Real Right Right Place Than Tree

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Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: Advertising Alter Charged Convincing Elections Facebook Influence Kind Needed Outcome Party Political Political Party Politicians Sales Specialized Team

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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Convincing Evidence Example Find Milk Occasionally Quote Very You

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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: After Again Became Convincing Descent Design Disappeared Evidence Focus Heard Materialism Most Never Reference Space Surface You

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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Able Any Art Art Form Better Convey Convincing Else Everyone Everyone Else Fiction Form Going Great Head Life Me Mystery One Thing Other Sense Someone Than Thing Thinking

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I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'

~Ashley Graham

Topics: Am Convincing Going Had Look Love Love You Mirror Moment Myself Never Remember Saying Start Successful Thinking Woman You I Am I Remember I Love I Love You

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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

~Ben Nelson

Topics: Amendment Basis Clear Constitution Convincing Delicate Document Done Endeavor Evidence Freedom Liberty Love Most Necessary Only Proposed Sacred Should Those U.s. Constitution Who

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Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the American people that he's a racial unifier rather than a divider, without any evidence to prove it.

~Ben Shapiro

Topics: American American People Any Campaign Convincing Evidence He Himself Obama People Perfect Placed Political Position Prove Racial Rather Spent Than Without

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