Tom Cruise Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
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I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
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Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
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I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
