Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
