"Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you."

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Source : "Films of my life: Sam Taylor-Wood" by Roger Clarke, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2008.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.”
“Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
“Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!”
“The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.”
“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.”

Source : "The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton". Book by Robert Perceval Graves, Volume 3, p. 219, 1889.
“My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.”
“The photographic image... is a message without a code.”
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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