{"author":"Tom Hanks","author_id":"Tom+Hanks","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["everyone","hard","would "],"id":34905,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["wish","looking","you "],"id":53538,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["time","day","good "],"id":59763,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["beauty","desert","forest-gump","morning"],"id":75398,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["life","work","nature "],"id":110128,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["hard-knocks","learning","perseverance"],"id":137445,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"As long as you as an individual... Can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["positive","yourself","people "],"id":194372,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["cinema","film","loneliness"],"id":204909,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["friends","cool","week "],"id":239552,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"},{"text":"I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.","author":"Tom Hanks","tags":["good","world","chance "],"id":246184,"author_id":"Tom+Hanks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}