Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
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But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
