#mo

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #dying #hiding #malaria #malnutrition

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions. ↗

— John Sweeney

#goes #i #i think #labor #labor movement

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#box #box office #does #drive #droves

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. ↗

— Ed Koch

#critic #criticized #fun #lot #more

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. ↗

— George Weah

#believe #come #control #country #democracy

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #deal #deliver #done #everything

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had