John Lithgow Quotes
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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To be human is to be visible.
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
