Chris Lilley Quotes
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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'Touch'
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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
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βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγαςβέβηκεν.
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To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.
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ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant...
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
