John Lithgow Quotes
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.
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I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
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It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
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I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
