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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.
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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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What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what dirty means.
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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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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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