Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his dayBy leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
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I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.
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I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.
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I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
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Climate change is real.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to an extent.
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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
