John Lithgow Quotes
I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
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Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.
