Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I never left doo wop.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.
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I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
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When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.
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I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
