John Lithgow Quotes

My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1945

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The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.

Joe Gebbia

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When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

Max Brooks

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Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Anna Paquin

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The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Simon Cowell

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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.

Mitch Glazer

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

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My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

Christine McVie

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I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.

Colman Domingo

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A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Thomas Szasz

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