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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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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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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I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies.
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Whole Foods has a good health care plan.
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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There are bits of me in all my characters.
