Damon Galgut Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
