Chris Lilley Quotes
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
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I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.
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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
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I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
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You must also have a sense of when to stop.
Garry Kasparov -
'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.