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When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Syracuse
New York
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.
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I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
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But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.
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I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
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My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.
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I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
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We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.
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If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
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You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal
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I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.
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When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
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I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
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I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.
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I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, 'This woman's amazing.' I'm happy that I'm with her. She's amazing, and I'd think the same of her even if she wasn't with me - she's just amazing.
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
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