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

Lily Tomlin

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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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
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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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex

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