John Lithgow Quotes
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.John Lithgow
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Valentino Rossi -
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
Rachel Bloom -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright -
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay -
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox -
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
Parker Stevenson -
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall -
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher -
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J Mascis
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong -
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Harold Coffin -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer -
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
Paul Weyrich -
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
Chow Yun-Fat -
It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
John Lithgow