Damon Galgut Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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!
-
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
-
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
-
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
-
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
-
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
-
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
-
I'm a composer, man.
-
I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
-
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.
-
I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
-
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.
-
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
-
For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
-
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
-
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
-
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
-
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
-
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
-
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
