Emily Dickinson Quotes
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.
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If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.
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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed 'the squirrel brain' are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
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Our story of evolution ended with a stirring in the brain-organ of the latest of Nature's experiments; but that stirring of consciousness transmutes the whole story and gives meaning to its symbolism. Symbolically it is the end, but looking behind the symbolism it is the beginning.
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You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
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Not eating. To not get fat. I lost about 15 pounds for the role because I wanted to get a sense of what it’s like to be hungry and what it does to your brain and your physical state. It was extremely tough to not be eating as much.
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I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
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Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.
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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
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Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
