John Lithgow Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.
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Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.
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After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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Now it's all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That's the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you're not really sure you want to buy. And I think it's fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.
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I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.
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No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.
