Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Venus favors the bold.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
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You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
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Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
