Damon Galgut Quotes
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.
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When I was 15, I talked to Liam Neeson because I was the only one of my friends ballsy enough to engage him.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
