John Lithgow Quotes
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
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I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
