Chris Ofili Quotes
I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.Chris Ofili
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
Eddie Huang -
I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart -
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
Barry Diller -
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine -
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig -
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh -
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
Felicia Day -
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia -
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
Olivia Munn
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
Randy Houser -
When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
Olivier Theyskens -
History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
Nazanin Boniadi -
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz -
My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.
Mother Teresa -
I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
Kesha -
I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
Neil Diamond -
If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.
Jay Mohr -
I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.
Chris Ofili