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• Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

  Ben Elton

  Comedy, Has Beens

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• Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

  Soong May-ling

  Country, Progress, Politics

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• I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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• My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

  Evan Davis

  Competition, Needs, News

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• I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

  Carla Gugino

  Artist, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

  Kate Burton

  Character, Actresses, Tendencies

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• I live on my gut instinct.

  Melanie Brown

  Gut Instinct, Guts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Misunderstood, Trying

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• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  Anderson Cooper

  Long, Adults, Gone

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

  Gina Carano

  Fighting, Kind, Moments

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

  Nick Clegg

  Dream, Thinking, People

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  David Deutsch

  Fall, Apples, Numbers

  "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

  Jeff Daniels

  Two, Riding, Doe

  "Jeff Daniels: Anchoring The Cast Of 'The Newsroom'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2012.

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• Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

  Joshua Ferris

  Loneliness, People, Community

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• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Will Ferrell

  Drama, Thinking, Play

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• Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

  Will Ferrell

  Political, Happens

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• I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  Gary Gygax

  Risk, Gut Instinct, Guts

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

  Greta Gerwig

  Done, Plans

  "'Indie Darling' Greta Gerwig, Making A Bigger Splash". Interview with Robert Siegel, krwg.org. April 11, 2012.

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• I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

  Lori Greiner

  Knowing, Going To Work, Innate

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Oct 01, 2013

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• None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Planning, Release

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

  Michael Ealy

  Want, Scripts, Speak

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• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  Omar Epps

  Doubt, Directors, Overbearing

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Cultural Relativism, Hunger, Hungry

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Strong, Children, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Probability Theory, Appreciate

  "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

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