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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Lily Tomlin

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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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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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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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If you can't be direct, why be?
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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