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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. -- Robert Fulghum
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too. -- Laura Michelle Kelly
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. -- Mark Thomas
For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. -- Robbie Jones
Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. -- Jean Chatzky
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that. -- Chevy Stevens
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball. -- Robin Ince
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. -- John Bradshaw
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism. -- Sherri Shepherd
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism. -- Tessanne Chin
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. -- Monica Raymund
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. -- Phil McGraw
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. -- Carnie Wilson
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. -- K. A. Applegate
Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me. -- Johnny Vegas
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. -- Ransom Riggs
I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. -- Gary Oldman
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle. -- John Ridley
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. -- Marianne Williamson
I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away. -- Natasha Lyonne
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism. -- Bertie Carvel

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