Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You are just your intelligence.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Love, and do what you like.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
