Instinct Quotes - Page 32

• I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

  Werner Herzog

  Giving, Imagination, Perspective

  "Werner Herzog's Cave Painting Documentary 'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Country, Rights, Oil

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• Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

  Avril Lavigne

  Home, Writing, Piano

  "Avril Lavigne Chats With Us About Her New Album (Out Now!) and Her Obsessions". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. November 6, 2013.

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• Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Fall, Self

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• That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Mother, Lying, Fake

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• I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

  David Raiklen

  Stories, Firsts, Action

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• A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Comedian, Kind, Timing

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• The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Choices, Psychology, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

  Emma Roberts

  Cells, Phones, Survival

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

  Clint Eastwood

  Soul, Research, Body

  "[NYFF] Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Press Conference". thefilmstage.com. October 17, 2010.

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• If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in front of people. You can't stay in the bedroom, get out sooner rather than later. Use your gut instinct.

  Chris Wyse

  Play, People, Needs

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• All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

  Woody Allen

  Men, World, Want

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

  Tim Wise

  Thinking, Keys, Color

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• If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Reality, Illustration

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Children, Memories, Boys

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• If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.

  Aziz Ansari

  Sorry, Nice, Writing

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. February 3, 2010.

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• When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, Different, Scent

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Acting

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

  Herve Falciani

  Strong, Self, Regulation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Sex, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the answer for me. "Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?" I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

  Bo Burnham

  Fall, Miscarriage, Men

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

  E. Jean Carroll

  Powerful, Long, Together

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

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• [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Memories, Eye, Animal

  James A. Michener, Alan C. Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daphne du Maurier, Sixta, A.J. Cronin, Captain J. Y. Cousteau with Frederic Dumas (1953). “THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT”

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• I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

  Bill Burr

  Growing Up, Thinking, Boys

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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