Matthew Walker Quotes

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Matthew Walker

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Doctor

• Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Record
  • Grow
  • Comfortable

• Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • More
  • Capitalism

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Hell
  • Coat
  • Fur

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Know
  • Easy
  • Turn

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• I've never held out. I'm a first-class guy in any relationship. The first way of getting better is showing up, so I'm always going to show up and do my part and be ready to go.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • Long
  • Heart

• The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Awesome

• As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)

  

  P. C. Cast
  • High
  • Lost
  • Brain

• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • Money
  • America

• It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Brain