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'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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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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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
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Nothing happens for almost eight minutes and it still holds your attention.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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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.
