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Lily Tomlin

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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
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Television Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
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You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.
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