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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

Lily Tomlin

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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality

After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

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