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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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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There are some areas of the US where competition is less than desirable. And we need to be careful not to overly consolidate the hospital industry. But some consolidation is both necessary and desirable.
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.
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I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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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.