Tom Cruise Quotes
I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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MTV shows me love.
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It's been a teenage fantasy of mine to play Bodhi.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.
