Lily Tomlin Quotes
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.
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Until now a culture has been a mechanical fate for societies, the automatic interiorization of their own technologies. (p. 86)
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Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
