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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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.
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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
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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.
