John Lithgow Quotes
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.
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I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
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After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.
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American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.
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It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
