Tom Hanks Quotes
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
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The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
