Chris Lilley Quotes
I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.
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It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
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My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.
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You can't simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won't accept it.
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I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
