Chris Lilley Quotes
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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With a lot of shows, what you'll see happen is they start off really well, and they're very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show... they become a cliche of the show they once were. That's the whole 'jumping the shark' thing.
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I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
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I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
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Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
