Toms Quotes - Page 6

• I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

  Walker Percy

  Uncles, Writing, Wind

  Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer (1993). “More Conversations with Walker Percy”, p.223, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.'

  Alan Bennett

  Doubt, Coats, Steps

  "Untold Stories". Book by Alan Bennett, 2005.

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• I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Confidence, Self Confidence, Wish

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• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  Barry Sanders

  Rays, Offensive, Lineman

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• Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

  Tom Bodett

  Sarcasm, Insulting, Sound

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• Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

  Tom Bodett

  Men, Alaska, Three

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• I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

  Jodie Foster

  Work, Forever, Needs

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• Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.

  Bar Refaeli

  Married, Cruise, Justin

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• I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

  Andrew Shue

  Two, Fans, Bigs

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• Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Drama, Spring

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• My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Childhood, Thumbs

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• Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

  Linda Wells

  French Woman, Clean, Found

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• I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Character, Tunes, Kind

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• Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

  Hal Sutton

  Sports, Morning, Knowing

  Interview, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.

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• I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

  Benmont Tench

  Love, Night, Feet

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• There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!

  Scott Wolf

  Love, Brother, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Love, Men, Age

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

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• IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Uncles, Years, Cabins

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• In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

  Mary Hart

  Organization, News, Stories

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• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake, Book, Character

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• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

  Paul Schrader

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Children, Echoes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. ... Ridge's announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Home, Orange

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• One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

  David Gergen

  Integrity, Underestimate

  "Daschle withdraws as HHS nominee", www.cnn.com. February 3, 2009.

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