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“Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.”

Doe Two Different Moments Actors Instinct Brilliant Impulse Fortunate Riding

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.”

People Want Humans Desire Community Natural Groups Loneliness Identity Instinct

Author:Joshua Ferris

“We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.”

Way Needs Able Animal Accepting Habit Conversation Eating Instinct Craving Better Ways Eating Animals

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”

Ifs Thinking Way Play Roles Comedy Listening Drama Approach Instinct Commit Dramatic

Author:Will Ferrell

“Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.”

Happens Political Instinct

Author:Will Ferrell

“It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.”

Ifs Should Instinct Work Out Guts Good Will Gut Instinct

Author:Karen Gillan

“I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.”

Risk Instinct Guts Gut Instinct

Author:Gary Gygax

“I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.”

Done Plans Instinct

Author:Greta Gerwig

“I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.”

Knowing Instinct Going To Work Innate

Author:Lori Greiner

“None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.”

Has Beens Book Instinct Finished Planning Mediums Release

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells Speak Written Instinct Scripts Rely Well Written

Author:Michael Ealy

“A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.”

Doubt Directors Instinct Overbearing

Author:Omar Epps

“How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.”

Humans Train Instinct Hunger Hungry I Have Learned You Like It Cultural Relativism

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.”

Children Stills Feelings Strong My Own Behinds Cutting Seeing Instinct Winter Track Newspapers Snow Wheels Pushing Winter Snow Fresh Snow Prams Maternal Instinct

Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.”

Feels Mind Science Common Theory Appreciate Accounts Instinct Bottom Common Sense Accurate Probability Calculus Exactness Probability Theory

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child's trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child's special talents and unique capacities.”

“In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.”

Ends President Honesty Policy Instinct Openness Candor Honesty Is The Best Policy

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.”

Opportunity Acting Instinct Mixtures Combs Acting Out Naivete

Author:Jeffrey Combs

“The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.”

Self Challenges Teach Dad Instinct Restraint Reminding Self Restraint Being A Dad

Author:Michael Chiklis

“I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.”

People Thinking Want Should Government Able Law Given Situation Instinct Appropriate Swear Federal Government Swearing

Author:Richard Dooling

“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?”

Ifs Wells Bigs Actors Can Do Party Wonder Cases Pieces Transformation Instinct Primaries Substance Performers Thrilling

Author:Colin Firth

“Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.”

Said Sometimes Wanted Used Asks Answers Audience Instinct Guts Gut Instinct

Book:Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can

Source: Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can

“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”

Writing Kind Done Life Is Too Much Logic Instinct Vague Interiors Distrust Impatient Overrated

Author:Barry Hannah

“When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother.”

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

Peace Too Much Instinct Natasha Maternal Instinct

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

World Problem Bigs Film Certain Next Difficult Instinct Devoted Big Problems

Author:Emir Kusturica

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

People Thinking Sometimes Instinct

Author:Gary Kemp

“My instinct is to be very controlling.”

Instinct

Author:Gary Kemp

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