Chris Lilley Quotes
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
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When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
