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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury. -- Lee Child
There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do. -- Albert Brooks
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business. -- Anton Chekhov
The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now. -- Stephenie Meyer
I instinctively try to protect people from filth. -- Tony Abbott
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. -- Taylor Caldwell
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. -- Christopher Nolan
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. -- James Duval
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. -- Benjamin Spock
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? -- Morley Safer
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. -- Valerie Jarrett
I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right. -- Phyllis Diller
When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it. -- Allen Klein
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. -- Tom Hiddleston
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. -- Emil Nolde
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. -- Francis Cabot Lowell
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course. -- Charlie Sheen
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. -- Henry Winkler
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. -- Virginia Woolf
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged. -- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me. -- Sarah Silverman
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. -- George Orwell
I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible. -- James McAvoy
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. -- A. S. Byatt
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist. -- Caroline Knapp
When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before. -- David Crosby
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world. -- Pico Iyer
I'm instinctively a Conservative. -- Maurice Saatchi
I use color very instinctively. -- Alexandra Byrne
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! -- Michelangelo Antonioni
You instinctively like what you can't do. -- Franz Kline
I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth. -- Charlie Brooker
Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions. -- Meg Rosoff
Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. -- Timothy Keller
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
People are far more protective [of women] instinctively. -- Zoe Bell
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. -- Anna Held
I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. -- David Duchovny
Every major move in my life was done instinctively. -- T. D. Jakes
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep. -- Pliny the Elder
I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics. -- Amartya Sen
I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win. -- Susan Lucci
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought. -- Katharine Cornell
Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness. -- Brian Lindstrom
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. -- Richard Linklater
The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. -- J. C. Ryle
People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses. -- Keith Ferrazzi
Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better. -- Wayne Dyer
If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively. -- Michael J. Fox
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. -- David Luiz
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. -- Jean Cocteau
When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. -- James Agate
A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively. -- Mario Bellini
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. -- Deepak Chopra
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. -- Marshall McLuhan
Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. -- Sarah Brightman
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.. -- Paul Meyer
Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively. -- Peter Watts
Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt ! -- L.G. Durand
Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan. -- Seth Rogen
With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively. -- Matt Wagner
I'm very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively. -- Riccardo Tisci
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style. -- Jack Kirby
The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? -- Robert Green Ingersoll
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. -- Philip Yancey
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data. -- David Shields
I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -- James Russell Lowell
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. -- Marcel Proust
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles. -- Sandy Archibald
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? -- Ella Maillart
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response. -- Chiang Kai-shek
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. -- E. B. White
I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit. -- Gwenno
being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience -- Malcolm Gladwell
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. -- Emil Nolde
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life. -- Ethel Waters
Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption. -- David Levithan
Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. -- James Salter
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything. -- Chris Lilley
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet. -- Carson McCullers
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. -- Patrick Kavanagh
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. -- Oliver Lodge
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature. -- George Hodges (theologian)
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. -- Oliver Lodge
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. -- Walter Lippmann
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift. -- John Piper
I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively. -- Joan Hickson
I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen. -- Jim Carrey
What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness. -- Cory Duchesne
Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience. -- Susanna White
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. -- Vince Lombardi
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it. -- Ruth Bernhard
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues. -- Zig Ziglar
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph. -- Kenneth Clark
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true. -- T. D. Jakes
I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen. -- Brad Willis
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite. -- Philip Yancey
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them. -- Van Wyck Brooks
So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. -- William Butler Yeats
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I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. -- Joe Biden

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