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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
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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Express
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Creating

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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If you can't be direct, why be?
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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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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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
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