Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
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For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
