Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
