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If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.
I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!
Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.
All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.
Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.