Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLINWhen 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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