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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.
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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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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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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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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 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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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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