Chris Ofili Quotes
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
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I was always the weirdo at school.
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I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
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It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.
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Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
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A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
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Many of the trans women who are in our world are also in Caitlyn's Jenner world. And yes I've definitely spoken to her multiple times, talked to her, socialized with her. It's a small community when all is said and done, the trans community in Los Angeles. So everybody really knows each other and everybody's in contact.
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I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.
