Toms Quotes - Page 9

• I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

  David Fincher

  People, Fans, Letters

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher" by Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine, March 2007.

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• They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

  Bob Geldof

  Facts, Tom And Jerry, Halls

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• I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

  Arabella Weir

  Book, Names, Voice

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• I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

  Randy Harrison

  Careers, Want, Kind

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• I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.

  Kim Darby

  True Grit, Hell

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• I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Balls, Used

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• I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

  Thom Yorke

  Names, People, Thumbs

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• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

  Malcolm Cowley

  Kind, Sometimes, Kitten

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

  Melina Marchetta

  Character, Aunt, Thinking

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• If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and have fun, but at the end of the day, I'm not Tom Cruise. Girls are not falling all over me.

  Joshua Jackson

  Girl, Fun, Fall

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• I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.

  Katie Holmes

  Love

  "INT: Holmes/Caine". JoBlo Interview, www.joblo.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Grace Metalious

  Girlfriend, Sex, Glasses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Boys, Mind

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• The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

  Christian Carion

  Character, Cat, Army

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• Network news will still play an incredibly important role in this country, but the world that Peter, Tom and Dan began covering 25 years ago isn't the same world today. Technology, lifestyle and what constitutes news have all changed dramatically. I'm not saying that it is better or worse. I'm just saying that it's reality.

  Jeff Zucker

  Country, Technology, Reality

  "Jennings' Death Forces New Look at 'Big 3'" By Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2005.

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• The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Years

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  Camara Laye

  Dancer, Ballet, Beats

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• We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

  Lalla Ward

  Long, Annoyed, Scarves

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

  Jack White

  Passion, Light, Numbers

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• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

  Edward Abbey

  Adults, Earth, Lasts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on.  This is going to be an issue in 2006 and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, "Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not, or is that going to be up to your loved ones?

  Howard Dean

  Issues, Guy, Use

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2005.

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• My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Ideas, Giving

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• ... the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear-'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life.

  Howard Roberts

  Music, Play, Cartoon

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• However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

  Eustace Mullins

  Uncles, War, Book

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