Lily Tomlin Quotes

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

Lily Tomlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 1, 1939

Topics

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When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

John Lahr

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If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.

Ann McKee

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I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

Amber Mark

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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mary Harris Jones

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There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

Mike Pompeo

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It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Jason Bateman

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Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

Dianne Reeves

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God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Brandon Lee

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I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Cilla Black

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Ice cream is my vice.

Brad Meltzer

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He traveled in order to come home.

William Trevor

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Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

Sylvia Sidney

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