Chris Lilley Quotes
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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My motto is: more good times.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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O gracious God! how far have weProfaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!
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The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.
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I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.
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There are bits of me in all my characters.
