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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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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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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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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I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
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It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart.
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Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
