Guts Quotes - Page 16

• I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

  Claudia Christian

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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• I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

  Dave Grohl

  Writing, Thinking, Singing

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft

  Molly Peacock

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.

  Valerie Thomas

  Passion, Hobbies, Wimps

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.155, Egmont UK

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• I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

  Paul Westerberg

  Real, Heart, Replacements

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

  Missy Elliot

  Sneakers, Maids, Too Much

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

  Alan Greenspan

  Years, Important, Genius

  1995 In the NewYork Times, 6 Mar, shortly after the collapse of Barings in Singapore brought about by a young derivatives trader.

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• If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

  Ariel Gore

  Hurt, People, Worry

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• Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Feelings, Confusing, World

  "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Chance Riches", p. 342, 1983.

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• Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Tongue, Should

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.484, GENERAL PRESS

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• The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Sleep, Unique

  "Woman Hating". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1974.

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• I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Blood, Cake, Chocolate

  Song: Teen Idle, Album: Electra Heart, 2012

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• Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

  Douglas Booth

  Emotional, Attention, Pay

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

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• I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

  Jason Reitman

  Hands, Feelings, Pieces

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• Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

  Amor Towles

  Father, Used, Old Time

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

  Mika

  Running, People, Wish

  "'Grace Kelly's' Mika confesses awkward youth" by Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2009.

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• You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

  Fritz Scholder

  Discipline, Chance, Boring

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• Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Evolve, Higher

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1849, Simon and Schuster

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• There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

  Malcolm X

  House, Ems, Fields

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• You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Want

  'The Biglow Papers' (First Series, 1848) no. 1 'A Letter'

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Mirrors, Issues

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

  Sarah Palin

  Underdog, Principles, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2012

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