Damon Galgut Quotes
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
