Chris Lilley Quotes
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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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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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I like being unconventional.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
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I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
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People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.
