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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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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 was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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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 always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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 read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
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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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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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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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