Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Agency is the technical term for the feeling of being in charge of your life: knowing where you stand, knowing that you have.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.
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I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
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I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
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Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.
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You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Agency is the technical term for the feeling of being in charge of your life: knowing where you stand, knowing that you have.
