John Lithgow Quotes
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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There was a laughing devil in his sneer.
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I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
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Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
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If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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I believe every woman in the Bill Cosby case.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
