Chris Ofili Quotes
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.Chris Ofili
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
Ted Rall -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
Zarin Mehta -
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
Barnabe Barnes -
I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
Faith Hill
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
Ian McKeever -
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann -
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama -
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
Gavin DeGraw
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I don't like to look typical.
Adam Lambert -
For economist the real world is often a special case.
Edgar Fiedler -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
Dan Hawkins -
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
Callie Khouri -
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Francesca Annis
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.
Bob Iger -
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
C. Wright Mills -
I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
Ngaio Marsh -
As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
Anna Kendrick -
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
Chris Ofili