Damon Galgut Quotes
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
Quotes to Explore
-
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
-
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
-
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
-
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
-
'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
-
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
-
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
-
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
-
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
-
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
-
For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
-
Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
-
We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
-
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
-
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
-
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
-
The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
-
I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
-
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
-
We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
-
Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
-
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
-
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
