Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them. There appeared to be little in between.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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So little time and so little to do.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
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While reliving trauma is dramatic, frightening, and potentially self-destructive, over time a lack of presence can be even more damaging. This is a particular problem with traumatized children. The acting-out kids tend to get attention; the blanked-out ones don’t bother anybody and are left to lose their future bit by bit.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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Tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them. There appeared to be little in between.
