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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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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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.
