John Lithgow Quotes
I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
