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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Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
