Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
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The jungle is life itself. A thousand times more alive than anything you've ever seen. We didn't go there to be a part of it. We invaded it. We shaved the jungle and made a stinking camp in the middle of it. Radios blaring. It was disgusting.
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It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
