Instinct Quotes - Page 35

• That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Imaginative, Inherent

  "Getting to Know the General: the Story of an Involvement". Book by Graham Greene, 1984.

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• What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Survival, Ingredients

  The Rolling Stone, January 2003.

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Doors

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.

  Howie Mandel

  Teaching, Kids, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Hurt, Want, Opinion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

  Colin Firth

  Moving, Skills, Laughing

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here." And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be... frankly, to be subtle.

  Edward Norton

  Beautiful, People, Appreciate

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Choices, Matter

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Doe, Roles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world.

  Michael Emerson

  Heart, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

  Sam Mendes

  High Standards, Making Changes, Theater

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

  Richard Ayoade

  Actors, Very Good, Accurate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

  Marion Cotillard

  Animal, Use, Lost

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.

  Piper Perabo

  Believe, People, Following

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

  Susan Orlean

  Mean, Animal, Selfless

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, Projects, Rely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Comedy, Physical Comedy

  Source: guff.com

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• You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.

  Laird Hamilton

  Children, Law, Levels

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

  James Frey

  Writing, Feels, Knows

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• People's instinct when they hear someone is madly obsessed with Star Wars or Harry Potter or something like that, they think that it's odd and not as cool as being a massive sports fan or film nerd. But I think it's amazing and something that should be celebrated and definitely not looked down on or misunderstood.

  Tom Felton

  Sports, Stars, War

  "Tom Felton was More Involved with Kim K’s Draco Malfoy Hair than You Realized". Interview with Alexandra D'Aluisio, www.clevver.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Self Esteem, Good Luck, Animal

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• Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

  Federico Fellini

  Men, Needs, Natural Instinct

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• Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Currency, Social, Reciprocity

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.47, Basic Books

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• My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Noel Gallagher: 'I won't sing about Liam Gallagher feud, Oasis split'" by Daniel Sperling, www.digitalspy.com. October 22, 2011.

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• The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Religious, Sacrifice

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