Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
