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Lily Tomlin

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.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
You 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.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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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Fame Myself Settle Willing

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