One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. – Daniel Day-Lewis
At some point in your life, if youre lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. – Daniel Day-Lewis
I think I have a strange relationship with time. Im not really aware of that time passing. I dont feel that Im wasteful with time. But Im not aware of it passing. – Daniel Day-Lewis
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. – Daniel Day-Lewis
It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. – Marcus Allen
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919