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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
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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Lying Make Up True Yourself
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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Equality Money Pay People Work
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph

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