Tom Hanks Quotes
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
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That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
