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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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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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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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.
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My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
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I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.
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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.
