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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#american #american actors #being #interchangeable #like

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?' ↗

— Damian Lewis

#all day #america #american #american accent #comes

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#denial #denies #developed #form #highly

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#day #front #preference #someone #sticks

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#american #american movies #come #heresy #i

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#american spirit #around #becoming #contribution #esteem

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#assemble #citizens #crystallized #demand #future