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Quote by Daniel Day-Lewis
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class l

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

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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and thats never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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movies
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When Ive gone back to work, its always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but its the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I cant avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work. – Jessica Lange

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They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or dont like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because theyre not sure what they saw. – Alice Cooper

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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. – E. W. Howe

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Most fathers dont see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddys lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. – Victoria Secunda

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