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.
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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.
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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.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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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.
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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.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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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.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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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.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I'm hunting one thing and one thing only, and that's the Super Bowl.
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A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
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I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
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I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the 1983 election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge.
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My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.
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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.
