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.
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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.
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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.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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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.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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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.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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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.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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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.
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When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
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How we see ‘black’ here in the United States is different. You think ‘black,’ you think African-American. See for us in the Dominican Republic, because we’re all Dominican, you only have but to say ‘You’re black.
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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.
