Tom Cruise Quotes
The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I'm not politically correct.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I'm very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don't want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.
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Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.
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I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".
