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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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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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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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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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.
