Damon Galgut Quotes
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster -
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
Park Geun-hye -
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane -
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
Dan DeCarlo
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman -
I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba -
There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
Sally Field -
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt -
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Dana Priest -
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
Zach Anner
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan -
I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
Carlene Carter -
I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
Vijay -
Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
Edgardo Osorio -
Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.
Vic Morrow -
Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
Calvin Harris
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
Bertram Brockhouse -
The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.
Milo Yiannopoulos -
It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
Quavo Migos -
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
Miguel Syjuco -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut