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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

Lily Tomlin

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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it 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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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