John Lithgow Quotes
People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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There's a lot of people on the way up who want to take my place, so it's up to me to continue to improve.
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My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
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People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.
