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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
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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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 truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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 start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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