Tom Hanks Quotes
I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
