Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If we are aware of the constant changes in our inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them. But we can’t do this unless our watchtower, the MPFC, learns to observe what is going on inside us.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I'm a point of conversation for my friends.
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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
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Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If we are aware of the constant changes in our inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them. But we can’t do this unless our watchtower, the MPFC, learns to observe what is going on inside us.
