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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
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"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"
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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun."
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"Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses."
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"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."
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"The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood."
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"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."
Thought
"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."
Creativity
"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
Being
"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
Blood
"Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in."
Family
"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."
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"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."
Life
"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."
Thought
"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death."
Death
"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."
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