Damon Galgut Quotes
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
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Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.
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Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
