Chris Ofili Quotes

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Chris Ofili

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• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Dream
  • New
  • New York

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Years

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Caring
  • Walk

• Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Curiosity

• I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Islam

• I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Home
  • California
  • Rain

• I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Day
  • Period

• In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Time
  • Same
  • Genius

• Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • You
  • Write

• If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that way. I just go about my day, and I don't think anyone is out to get me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Day
  • Start

• In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.

  

  Larry Wall

• I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Long
  • Lonely

• I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Up
  • America

• In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Power
  • Direction
  • Tyranny

• The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

  

  Chris Ofili