John Lithgow Quotes
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
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Der Satan der italienischen und englischen Dichter mag poetischer sein; aber der deutsche Satan ist satanischer; und insofern könnte man sagen, der Satan sei eine deutsche Erfindung.
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
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A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.
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It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy.
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Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.
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It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
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I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
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We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
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Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
