Guts Quotes - Page 15

• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

  David Finch

  Character, Dark, Interesting

  Source: zimmert101.wordpress.com

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• People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

  Tom Coburn

  Loyalty, Party, People

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• To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

  Jillian Medoff

  Philosophy, Memorable, Political

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Tired, Mean, Sarcasm

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Thinking, Simple

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Decision, Research

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

  Toni Collette

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

  Toni Collette

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

  Luke Ford

  Teacher, College, Fire

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Fighting, Men

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• More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

  Seth

  Opportunity, Scare, Way

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• It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

  Seth

  Mean, Wells, Measuring

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• Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

  Ed Parker

  Skills, Ends, Conditions

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• A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Children, Mean

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.145, Harmony

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• You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.

  David Ayer

  Want, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I read the books the day before I had met with the director Catherine Hardwicke. The first I heard of it was my agent called and said, 'Do you want to be in a vampire movie?' and I said 'No.' I thought it was like a zombie, blood-and-guts, vampire movie.

  Peter Facinelli

  Book, Blood, Zombie

  "EXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli Dishes on Twilight and New Moon!". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 6, 2008.

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• It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling when you find something, you're like, 'Yes, I want to sink my teeth into that.'

  Mandy Moore

  Character, Feelings, Want

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.

  Eli Roth

  Teenager, Dirty, Home

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Jobs, Adventure, Thinking

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a photograph, you just know it's the shot. Sometimes it's about the connection, or about the simplicity of the composition.

  Russell James

  Editing, Simplicity, Connections

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.

  Russell James

  Keys, Editing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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