Tom Hanks Quotes
When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
