John Lithgow Quotes
We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
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After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing
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I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
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I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
