Matthew Walker Quotes
I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
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I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.
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I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.
