Instinct Quotes - Page 19

• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

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• Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Too Much, Natasha

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• The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

  Emir Kusturica

  World, Next, Problem

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  Gary Kemp

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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• To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

  Bill Rancic

  Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Fighter, Starting

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• My instincts are not comedic.

  Josh Lucas

  Comedic

  Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

  Holland Taylor

  People, Interesting, Young

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• Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Trying, Sides

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

  Anson Mount

  Thinking, Humanity, Quality

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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• Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

  St. Vincent

  Memories, Guitar, Muscle Memory

  "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

  Joe Wright

  Choices, Feelings, Intuition

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fighting, Men, Sheep

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

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• He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

  Elie Wiesel

  Despair, Want, Overcoming

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

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• You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

  Jody Watley

  Feelings, Attention, Pay

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• The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

  Sonya Levien

  Men, Fascination, Looks

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• I act with my gut instincts.

  Alanna Ubach

  Gut Instinct, Guts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Men, Leader

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• The 'look of love' not only communicates our feeling of love for someone but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it takes to make that person happy.

  Willard F. Harley

  Love, Feelings, Looks

  Willard F. Harley, Jr. (2005). “Mom's Needs, Dad's Needs: Keeping Romance Alive Even After the Kids Arrive”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

  William Ralph Inge

  Powerful, Men, Average

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Feelings, Comforting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

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• There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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