Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.
