"One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible."

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Source: The New Frontier’s Man. Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2007.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

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Daniel Day-Lewis is an acclaimed actor known for his intense method acting and transformative roles in films like 'Lincoln' and 'My Left Foot.'

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