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• Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

  Tom Hanks

  Dying, Wish, Mama

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• I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.

  Tom Hanks

  Nice, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy" by Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

  Tom Hanks

  Destiny, Choices, Serendipity

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• I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.

  Tom Hanks

  Mother, Girlfriend, Views

  September 2001 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. September, 2001.

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• I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Here I Am, Breathing, One Day

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• Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cinema

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• Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

  Tom Hanks

  Technology, Stories, Movie Making

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• Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

  Tom Hanks

  Reading, Different, Scripts

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• Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

  Tom Hanks

  Good Day, Thinking, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

  Tom Hanks

  Loneliness, Differences, Solitude

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• Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

  Tom Hanks

  Horse, Jobs, Riding

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

  Tom Hanks

  Men, Guy, Bitter

  "Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts Talk ‘Larry Crowne,’ Growing Their Careers". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

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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.

  Tom Hanks

  Trying, Stories, Possibility

  "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• We are all God's animated cartoons.

  Tom Hanks

  Cartoon, Animated

  "Fictional character: Steven Gold". "Punchline", 1988.

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• You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

  Tom Hanks

  Keys, Secret, Trying

  "Tom Hanks Talks CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

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• The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

  Tom Hanks

  Morning, Heaven, Desert

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• Shake it off and move on.

  Tom Hanks

  Moving, Shakes

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• The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

  Tom Hanks

  Moral, Reason, Dilemma

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• If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

  Tom Hanks

  Men, Good Man, Spiders

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• Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

  Tom Hanks

  Fun, Healing, Health

  "Confessions of an Average Man" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 1, 2006.

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• In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Couple, Anger

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• And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

  Tom Hanks

  Opportunity, College, Play

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• The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

  Tom Hanks

  Adventure, Character, Stories

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• Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

  Tom Hanks

  Week, Telegrams

  "Tom Hanks talks Larry Crowne, Cloud Atlas and more". "Flickering Myth" Interview, www.flickeringmyth.com. November 18, 2011.

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• A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"

  Tom Hanks

  Goodbye, Opportunity, Extraordinary Moments

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