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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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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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 never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
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Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
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There are bits of me in all my characters.
