Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Every idea has its time.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.
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As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
