Chris Lilley Quotes

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

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• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Give
  • Fighter

• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Man
  • Security

• From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Over
  • Wrote

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • You
  • Author

• Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Divorce
  • Very
  • Generous

• Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Because

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Dirty
  • Immortality
  • Quick

• Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Trump
  • Issues
  • Very

• I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Help
  • Know
  • Everyone

• North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Game
  • Down
  • Stock

• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Right
  • Nation
  • Herself

• There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Black
  • Star
  • Doing

• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Other
  • Aspire
  • Pinnacle

• And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • Time
  • Alone

• Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Heart
  • Laugh
  • Relaxed

• I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Country
  • Appreciation

• The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

  

  Chris Lilley