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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was n...
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining m...
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but hav...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

My main memories of my father are of his illness.
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When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've alm...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has alway...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to fo...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express...
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything wort...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I do...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a com...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to bel...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
DANIEL DAY LEWIS

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, ...
DANIEL DAY LEWIS

Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter,...
DANIEL DAY LEWIS

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I hate the domestic life.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I became conflicted in my late teens.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese onc...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter,...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I've only been reminded in the last few days constantly that I've let five years pass. I'm not being...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Gangs of New York,
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually su...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm not picky, quite honestly.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was v...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, yo...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It&#...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I love what I do.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Actors should never give interviews.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselve...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I h...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I like to learn about things.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outs...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies tha...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I like to cook things very slowly.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, ver...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I've got a serious-looking head.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative imp...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I've been very lucky.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the fi...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an ...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

It must be hard interviewing actors.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I don't torture myself.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Because of the nature of the injury, he really couldn't do much. He would try to come out and coach ...
DANIEL LEWIS It was facilitated by people outside the Department of Education, folks who really had no stake in i...
DANIEL LEWIS Eric Love is so good in the air, ... He's such an easy target (on corners). And when he gets up ther...
DANIEL LEWIS I used to go to the gym but it turned into a chore. With gymnastics, you're getting great exercise a...
DANIEL LEWIS Anyone that has wrestled before at a high level understands that you just don't get in shape for wre...
DANIEL LEWIS I like it, ... I'm very proud of my heritage.
DANIEL LEWIS He was just going to pre-kindergarten. It was going to be his first day right when the storm hit,
DANIEL LEWIS Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. DAY LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
C. DAY LEWIS No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim th...
C. DAY LEWIS We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. DAY LEWIS

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
CECIL DAY LEWIS

See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left�...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS

We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be...
CECIL DAY LEWIS

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age see...
C. DAY LEWIS Suppose that we, to-morrow or the next day, / Came to an end - in storm the shafting broken, / Or a ...
C. DAY LEWIS It is the logic of our times,No subject for immortal verse-That we who lived by honest dreamsDefend ...
C. DAY LEWIS It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse-
That we who lived by honest dre...
C. DAY LEWIS

When bullying April bruised mine eyes
With sleet-bound appetites and crude
Experiments of ...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS

It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-
A sunny day with the leaves just turning,
The...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS Feast of Mark the Evangelist The first article of Christian faith is that man has one and only on...
DANIEL DAY WILLIAMS Our deepest insight into the nature of God is expressed with a family analogy. He is both Father and...
DANIEL DAY WILLIAMS

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-...
FELICIA DAY

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
JASON DAY Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
ROBIN DAY Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music r...
ANDRA DAY Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
FELICIA DAY Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball ...
LARAINE DAY I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the p...
LARAINE DAY I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
LARAINE DAY Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
LARAINE DAY M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme p...
LARAINE DAY I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!
LARAINE DAY I am very much a Republican.
LARAINE DAY My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
LARAINE DAY Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their f...
LARAINE DAY

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statement...
STOCKWELL DAY

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system ...
STOCKWELL DAY

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus ch...
STOCKWELL DAY

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil...
JASON DAY I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtim...
FELICIA DAY When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I reli...
FELICIA DAY I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
FELICIA DAY Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web...
FELICIA DAY Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of ...
FELICIA DAY I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at ...
FELICIA DAY Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
FELICIA DAY I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the ...
FELICIA DAY Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're m...
FELICIA DAY People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you&#...
FELICIA DAY My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go place...
FELICIA DAY Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social ins...
FELICIA DAY I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips t...
FELICIA DAY At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or ...
FELICIA DAY People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would ...
FELICIA DAY The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love so...
FELICIA DAY There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, an...
FELICIA DAY I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I st...
FELICIA DAY I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
FELICIA DAY Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in the...
FELICIA DAY Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and sel...
FELICIA DAY I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer....
FELICIA DAY

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional argum...
STOCKWELL DAY It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thought...
SYLVIA DAY

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY This is an entirely personal transaction involving Mr. Michaels of which the tribe has no knowledge ...
ADAM DAY We haven't done a faculty show in a couple years so it gave the professors some time to get some new...
ADAM DAY We don't have any information on that. We've got some allegations but no concrete evidence.
ADAM DAY He was trying to help a friend who got sent to prison, and made inaccurate statements about his busi...
ADAM DAY There was a request to become partners in this New Era Sports. Both the tribal council and the devel...
ADAM DAY I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to ...
ANDRA DAY

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ...
DEBORAH DAY

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us...
DEBORAH DAY

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
DOROTHY DAY

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...
DORIS DAY

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.
CLARENCE DAY I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.
PAT DAY

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
DORIS DAY

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
CLARENCE DAY

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY

How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts...
DOROTHY DAY

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or a...
DOROTHY DAY

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
CLARENCE DAY If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at...
CLARENCE DAY

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts mon...
CLARENCE DAY

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly alway...
CLARENCE DAY

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ...
DOROTHY DAY

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are ...
DOROTHY DAY

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
DORIS DAY

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...
DORIS DAY

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting...
DOROTHY DAY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
STOCKWELL DAY

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified bef...
DOROTHY DAY

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fund...
DOROTHY DAY

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups...
DOROTHY DAY

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...
DOROTHY DAY

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and s...
DOROTHY DAY

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
DOROTHY DAY

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...
DOROTHY DAY

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
DOROTHY DAY

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom...
DOROTHY DAY

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