“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

Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)

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American actress, comedian, writer, and producer 1939

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