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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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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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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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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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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Are we meant to take more than we giveor are we meant to be kind?And if only fools are kind, Alfie,then I guess it's wise to be cruel.
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
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My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
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When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
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She looked like a summer garden.
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I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.
