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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Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
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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.
