Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
