Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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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 often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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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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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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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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Respect the work that you've never done before.
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Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
