Tom Cruise Quotes
Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.
