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My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.
I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.
You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.
I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.
I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.
You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
It's instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.
It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.