John Lithgow Quotes
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.
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I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
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If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.
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When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.