John Lithgow Quotes
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.
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We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
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Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
