Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
Orhan Pamuk
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
Calvin Johnson
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
Mallory Ortberg
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri
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Let's hope you feel better now.
Jack Kevorkian
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
Malin Akerman
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Barbara Kruger
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
Dan T. Cathy
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
Natalia Kills
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
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Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
Ma Jun
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
Ted Danson
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My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
Gabriel Macht
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Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.
Hannah Teter
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The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.
Bessel van der Kolk