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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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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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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I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
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I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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Abortion is a searing and divisive public policy issue precisely because two significant sets of rights are in conflict, and no matter which set of laws it enacts, society must choose between those rights.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
