Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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I've had so many injuries.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.
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In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
