Allissa Latham Quotes & Sayings

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time. — John Locke

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange. — Antonio R. Damasio

You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little. — Logan Mankins

Nobody sets out to make a bad film. — Famke Janssen

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink — Tori Amos

It's us. And it's perfect. — Sarina Bowen

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. — Bill Nye

She imagined sometimes that kindness would come as an annihilating flood. Drown the war and us with it, recede just when we were on the edge of death. Leave us lying faceup on the ground, staring into the brilliant sky. Thankful for every breath. — Brian Francis Slattery

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character. — Joaquin Phoenix

Small miracles happen every day, some people just don't notice them. — Leila Summers

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. — Malcolm McDowell

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart ... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless. — Ridley Scott