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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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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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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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed.
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Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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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.
