Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
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People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets
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That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated.
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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
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Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.
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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
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I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!
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For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
