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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
LILY TOMLIN

Career Important Myself Regret
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLIN

Creation Expression Type Way
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLIN

Name Top Yourself
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Change Enough Myself Transformation
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
LILY TOMLIN

Consumption Life Live People Style
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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Hard Myself Try
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
LILY TOMLIN

Freedom Myself Sex Willing
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
LILY TOMLIN

Expectation Philosophy Yourself
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLIN

Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN

End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLIN

Leadership Reality Touch

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

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