Chris Lilley Quotes
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
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I'm not a regionalist. Both places have their pros and cons. And the cultural differences are slighter than they are made out to be. L.A. riots, N.Y. shops. Both are good for stress relief.
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The people did not talk about reciprocal concessions but demanded liberties and guarantees, which brought inevitably in many sectors a crueler war than the French would have waged otherwise.
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I think that when we talk about the regulators and the politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions back in '08, you know, were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout the world.
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I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
