Tom Hanks Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1956

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I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!

Jess Glynne

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Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

Jennette McCurdy

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All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'

Jennifer Armentrout

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I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

Anderson Cooper

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Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

John Lydon

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When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

Robert Kiyosaki

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When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

Jeff Perry

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I make money, and I don't need money.

Sophia Amoruso

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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Rita Mae Brown

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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Jules Romains

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You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

Juan Pablo Montoya

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I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

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