Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLINIt’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep 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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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