Achieve Quote by John Lithgow

“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.” quote by John Lithgow — Download Open image

“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.”

John Lithgow

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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

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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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