Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
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Money just draws flies.
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I like visual imagery in my head.
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Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
