John Lithgow Quotes
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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I love improvising.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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I really love the category on the site called Brain Massage.
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Prince Charming, prince of the mockers - compared with him the foulest of sinners is grace incarnate...
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Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else-cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments-as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
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My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
