John Lithgow Quotes
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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My health is fine.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.
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I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
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It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
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I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
