Guts Quotes - Page 18

• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Brain

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  Christina Aguilera

  Real, Acting, Honest

  "Christina Aguilera Interview, Burlesque". www.moviesonline.ca. August 22, 2018.

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• Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Courage, Real, Voice

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sharks, Long, Mouths

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• You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

  Debbie Ford

  Light, Order, Needs

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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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• After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

  Gale Harold

  Years, Three, Actors

  "Queer as Folk's Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

  Kanye West

  Fighting, Expression, Soul

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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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• Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

  George Luks

  Art, Shoes, Paint

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• I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Want, Benefits

  "Getting There: Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker". Interview with Erin Mershon, www.politico.com. October 1, 2014.

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• When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

  Jason Mraz

  Hands, Breakthrough, Melody

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

  Jack White

  Mean, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mean, People, Advice

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• People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

  Joan Bauer

  Dream, People, Quality

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• Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

  Scott Simon

  Song, Heart, Whole

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• I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

  Lykke Li

  People, Want, Singers

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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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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• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  Faith Hill

  Believe, Heart, Talking

  FaceBook post by Faith Hill from Jan 29, 2013

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• True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

  Dean Cavanagh

  Flower, Heart, Love Is

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• My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

  Justin Kan

  Regret, Advice, Coins

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• I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Source: www.theroc.org

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• I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

  Tracy Morgan

  Girl, Laughter, Laughing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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