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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
Type
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Another
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Express
Characters
Creating

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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Thank God kids never mean well
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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