Chris Ofili Quotes
Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
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I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
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For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.
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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
