Tom Hanks Quotes
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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When we first entered the music business, we didn't know very much about recording. Then, after working with Mutt Lange, we thought we knew everything there was about the studio. But just as we were getting cocky, along came video and we had whole new set of rules and regulations to learn about - it was a totally alien form to us. After all, we were just kids off the streets of Sheffield, what did we know about television except how to turn one on?
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
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Sympin’ ain’t easy- get on your hands and knees and lift your eyebrows. Sympin’ ain’t easy. And if you wanna get it, then you gotta be willing to cry and beg and plead on your knees.
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But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
