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If you can't be direct, why be?

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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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