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'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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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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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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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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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.
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I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
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I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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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.
