Fear Quote by John Lithgow

“If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.”

John Lithgow

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I never get tired of hearing compliments.

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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

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