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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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Lying Make Up True Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule

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