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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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