I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLINCreating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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