Matthew Walker Quotes
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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And yet it moves.
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My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
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In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.
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You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.
