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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Lily Tomlin

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.
LILY TOMLIN

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 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
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Impossible Myself News Reading
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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLIN

Born Growth Myself Place
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLIN

Creation Expression Type Way
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN

Love Question Yourself
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
LILY TOMLIN

Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
LILY TOMLIN

Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLIN

Myself Success World Worry

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