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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
London
England
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I'm woefully one-track-minded.
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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
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