Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow
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There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.
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Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.
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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
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Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
