Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
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The only way we are going to stop this disease is to raise money. Jimmy would go absolutely bananas to know how much money has been raised. We can't just sit back. This disease affects all of us.
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re: Abraham Lincoln 'Shall we stop this bleeding.'
