Damon Galgut Quotes
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
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You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
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I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
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I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
