Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
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The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
