Tom Hanks Quotes
Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I am a just man.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
