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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals. -- Robert Lanza
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. -- Sylvia Browne
I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person. -- Cathy Moriarty
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual. -- Ewan McGregor
I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions. --
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. -- Dominic Chianese
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. -- David Rakoff
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. -- Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. -- Sigmund Freud
Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self. -- Cesar Millan
I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there. -- Paloma Picasso
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid. -- William Scott
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says. -- Jack Reed
Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are. -- Thomas Keating
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. -- Andy Garcia
It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing. -- Natalie Dormer
I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work. -- Megyn Price
I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style. -- Chris Benz
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way. -- John Banville
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual. -- Campbell Scott
The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation. -- Sigmund Freud
You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius. -- Bryant McGill
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. -- Peter Shepherd
My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. -- Kevin Costner
Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. -- Shaun McNiff
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. -- Jonathan Schell
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition. -- Francesca Gregorini
The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. -- Danielle Rohr
I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open. -- Cody Johnson
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing. -- Neill Blomkamp
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied -- Cyril Connolly
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid. -- William Scott
If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go. -- Lars Ulrich
I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable. -- Mirabai Starr
The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process. -- Eran Kolirin
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment. -- Sigmund Freud

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