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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
London
England
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
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