A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.

Ad-Rock
Ad-Rock

It takes a lot of guts to get on stage.

Adam McKay
Adam McKay

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Aishwarya Rajesh
Aishwarya Rajesh

My gut told me 'Kanaa' was worth taking up, and it's a dream role for any actor.

Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna

I'm not a writer. As for direction, I don't have the guts to do that. Still you can never say never.

Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.

Alan Alda
Alan Alda

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.