John Lithgow Quotes
'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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My father had very little formal education.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I'm going to do my very best to ensure that our jobs are all market-competitive.
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Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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Do the least harm and the most good.
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'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
