"There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically."

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Source : "After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

Chris Ofili

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“Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.”
“Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.”
“Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.”
“But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.”
“We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.”
“Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?”
“Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.”
“My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.”

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