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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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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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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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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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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Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
