Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
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I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
