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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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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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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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.
