Anna Paquin
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Nothing. I fell asleep while I was getting a shave. When I woke up, the barber said, “No one has ever fallen asleep with a razor at their throat.” And I was like, “Bro, I have three boys under five – I sleep when I can.”
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I wrote about this in our first quarter client letter, actually, the concept of polycrisis, and I talked about the fact that my belief is that we've all become firefighters.
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Rachel Whiteread
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As I get older, sleeping gets harder. I exercise, I do mindfulness, I take drugs occasionally.
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