Beverly Engel Quotes
One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the “repetition compulsion”—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
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I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.
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A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
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It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.
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Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
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One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the “repetition compulsion”—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.
