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

• A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Life
  • Society
  • Choices

• Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • Door

• Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.

  

  James Watkins
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

  

  Peter D. Mitchell
  • Time
  • May
  • Nature

• And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.

  

  John Cornyn
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• 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