Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.
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I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
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Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
