John Lithgow Quotes
One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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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 hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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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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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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I resigned from my position as Ushahidi Executive Director and member of the Board in 2010. However, my role as a co-founder and my journey as a woman in the technology space means that I remain inextricably linked to Ushahidi, for better or worse.
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The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.
