Tom Hanks Quotes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
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I am always relaxed.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
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My mama was the man of my household.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
