Chris Ofili Quotes
A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.
