Guts Quotes - Page 16

• I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

  Steve Coogan

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

  Charles Stross

  Running, Europe, Usa

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• It's kind of amazing; I don't know anything. It's an interesting way to work where you're living in the moment and making decisions for your character in the moment. You have to go with your gut on everything - try not to over-think things. That tends to make me doubt what I did, but then that's always the case. I'm a worrier. I have to accept that and just be a worrier.

  Evan Peters

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Evan Peters, Man of the Year". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2015.

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• I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.

  Erin Davie

  Thinking, Pleasing Others, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  Abigail Disney

  Thinking, Ideas, Waiting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself. Part of what I was trying to do was to make the decision to go into business and find the guts to see it through. I was told that when I went in to see the bankers that I was supposed to be very muted, that I was supposed to blend in, that I was supposed to have the typical drab suit on.

  Debbi Fields

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

  Leslye Headland

  Beautiful, Past, Heartache

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.

  Bo Jackson

  Determination, Attitude, Team

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• I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

  George W. Bush

  Player, Textbooks

  "Bush Charts Course With Instincts, Advisers". abcnews.go.com. December 13.

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• There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Joy, Feelings

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

  Mark Emmert

  Hero, Winning, Balance

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Vacuums

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• We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

  Oliver North

  Needs, Defense, Lines

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• As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

  Amos Lee

  Hate, Knowing, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Feet, Scream, Concerts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.

  Nina Menkes

  Powerful, Moving, Heart

  "We hope to hook a big fish, but we don't know what we might find". Interview with Mariko Tamaki, logger.believermag.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  R.A. Dickey

  Thinking, Motivated, Felt

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive.

  Jim Warner

  Heart, Adventure, Greatness

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• I'm not a blood and guts person. I remember seeing 'House of Wax' as a teenager in 3D. This was years ago, the original 'House of Wax', and that was scary enough for me that I thought I'd never see another one.

  Lin Shaye

  Teenager, Years, Blood

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• I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

  Woody Harrelson

  People, Splits, Cry

  "Woody and Bush" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

  Brandy Norwood

  Passion, Stay True To Yourself, Following

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Stay simple and true to your gut. If you feel uncomfortable in something, no matter how fashion-forward it is, it's going to look funny. At the end of the day, I don't think it really matters what you're wearing, because if you shine through in that confidence, you really can convince anybody that what you're wearing is great...as long as it doesn't have too many sparkles!

  Analeigh Tipton

  Fashion, Thinking, Simple

  Source: www.glamour.com

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