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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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'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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When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.
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I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
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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 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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Thank God kids never mean well
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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