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Tom Hanks Quotes

«As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasn't until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.»
«I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.»
«Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.»
«I do the work that I think is absolutely fascinating. There's not nearly as much distraction for me now as there used to be.»
«I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.»
«I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.»
«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.»
«You guys should do a story on the tuxedo wars that go on if you're nominated,»
«as realistic as possible.»
«It may not be important for a while, ... But in 10 years, we may yearn for a common purpose like going to the moon. And we need to do the footwork now.»

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