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“Daniel Day-Lewis (like any star, or perhaps any creative person) is, in short, not a man but a work of art. His name is a sort of title by which I refer to a valuable body of work—that is to say, the sum of all the characters he has so brilliantly portrayed, all the plots into which he has been inserted…. If he should suddenly be transformed into a flesh-and-blood person, poor him, poor me.”
— Aug 10, 2024 12:12PM
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Elle
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“There have been times when I was truly alarmed, and feared for the fate of democracy in my country. But more often I thought our worries have been deliberately exaggerated. I’ve never shared the apprehension about the political rise of the Five Star Movement, and find the term “populism” — today applied to all political forces, old and new — to be useless.”
— Aug 10, 2024 12:04PM
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“On principle, I refuse to speak badly of another woman, even if she has offended me intolerably. It’s a position that I feel obliged to take precisely because I’m well aware of the situation of women; it’s mine, I observe it in others, and I know that there is no woman who does not make an enormous, exasperating effort to get to the end of the day.”
— Aug 09, 2024 06:25AM
