John Lithgow Quotes
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.
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Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.
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The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
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We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
