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

• 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

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hard
  • Catches
  • Running Away

• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • Music
  • Culture

• I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Character
  • Stills

• In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.

  

  Svante Paabo
  • Technology
  • Land
  • Neanderthals

• 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