It is very difficult to convince producers about a script without having the backing of a star.
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don’t only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.
I am not a person who is going to convince players to stay or not stay.
No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That’s not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It’s respect for the Everton supporters. You just can’t do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
I’ve always gone to gigs; I remember before I passed my driving test I’d convince various family members or friends’ parents to take us to Dundee or Edinburgh to see James or A-ha.
The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they’ll get double, triple or 10 times as much.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
For actors, the idea is that you convince people you’re someone you’re not.
I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It’s their daughters I want to convince.
Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince – move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it’s important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
I’ve tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
My parents wouldn’t let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.
I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we’re all exactly the same.
Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is.
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
I know we disagree with Mr. Trump on this area. I’m hopeful that we can convince him that making our tax code more pro-growth will make America stronger, but to do that, it’s not enough to simply buy American: we need to sell American all throughout the world.
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who’ve been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don’t feel worthy of it, that’s why they push people away.
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire – performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.
You have to convince those around you that you’re worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.
Many times people tried to convince me about Ahimsa silk, but when I followed the chain of production it always ended with genetically modified silk moths that could not fly. There was nothing Ahimsa about it.
In general, being likeable is more about being interested – rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it’s arbitrary. If you’re comfortable with your belief you don’t need to convince other people to agree with you.
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
I’d love to be in action movies. I’ve been trying to convince people. I don’t think it’s anything physical holding me back. I think it’s a general vibe thing that’s holding me back. I don’t project action confidence, maybe.
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There’s nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman – fat, thin, or in between – that she’s a freak.
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?
The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking – something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.
Too much research can be the writer’s enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn’t meant to convince anybody of anything.
Over the years, there’s been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it’s possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn’t dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.
If I can convince people that good people don’t do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.
If you convince your mind that you can’t give up then your body will automatically follow.
