Ronnie Wood
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My metabolism. Ever since I was a little kid, I was always up halfway through the night.
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Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
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Emily Mortimer
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All the things that seem very unimportant and manageable the next morning.
John Simm
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A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
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The thought that I could be doing more: being more productive, doing more of the things that matter, and less of the things that don’t.
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To be in a position to empower my entire family with generational wealth.
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When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
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