A Quote by Lily Tomlin

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

Lily Tomlin

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Lily Tomlin
American - Actress
Born: September 1, 1939

I grew up learning from numerous makeup artists how to put on makeup, different ways you can put on makeup, what type of makeup to use, what type of makeup not to use.

Olivia Holt

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

Benjamin Cardozo

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Brazil, there is a different type of football, but I think I am seen as an elegant type of ball player, who is creating for other people.

Oscar

I'm just the type of guy who wants the ball in my hands any type of way.

Tavon Austin

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

Kurt Fuller

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

Alison Brie

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

Ezra Klein

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

Harry West

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Will Rogers

Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

Susan Orlean

I'm just trying to put my feet into different characters and not play the stereotypical type thing, to let me grow as an actor.

Xzibit

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

Helmut Jahn

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Kendrick Lamar

We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.