Alan Ball
Alan Ball

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

Antoine Predock
Antoine Predock

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

Benjamin Walker
Benjamin Walker

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Clifford Ross
Clifford Ross

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.