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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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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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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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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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
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Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
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I want to be a guy the Royals build their team around.
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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.
