Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
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It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
