The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINYou know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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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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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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