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

Lily Tomlin

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.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
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
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Funny Myself Serious
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
LILY TOMLIN

Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLIN

Fear Thinking Yourself
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLIN

Born Growth Myself Place
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
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLIN

Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself

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

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

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