Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to… — Jerry I. Porras Copy Share Image
Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very… — Ronald Perelman Copy Share Image
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And… — Kate Burton Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me. "Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To… — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become… — Loren C. Dunn Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
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